Designing of possible structures of nitride vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers

Opto-Electronics Review

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 119-126

  Mackowiak P ^a   Czyszanowski, T ^a   Sarzala R P ^a   Wasiak, M ^a   Nakwaski, W ^a  

^a LODZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; ITO contact; Nitride VCSEL; Tunnel junction

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURRENT DENSITY; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; DIFFUSION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FEEDBACK; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FREQUENCIES; LIGHT ABSORPTION; NITRIDES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

OPTICAL GAIN; SEMITRANSPARENT CONTACT; THERMAL WAVEGUIDING EFFECT;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

EID: 0346965495     PISSN: 12303402     EISSN: 18963757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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