Optical emission from bound states of semiconductor deep-centers

Optics Express

Volumn 9, Issue 13, 2001, Pages 796-801

  Pan, Janet L ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; HAMILTONIANS; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTOREFRACTIVE MATERIALS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

ANGULAR MOMEMTUM; KANE DIPOLES; OPTICAL DIPOLES;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0141803087     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.9.000796     Document Type: Article

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