Spontaneous emission in GaN/InGaN photonic crystal nanopillars

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 26, 2007, Pages 17991-18004

  David, Aurelien ^a,b   Benisty, Henri ^a   Weisbuch, Claude ^b  

^a INSTITUT D'OPTIQUE GRADUATE SCHOOL   (France)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; GALLIUM NITRIDE; NANOSTRUCTURES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

BLOCH MODES; EMISSION DIAGRAMS; PURCELL EFFECTS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

GALLIUM; GALLIUM NITRIDE; INDIUM; INDIUM NITRIDE; NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GALLIUM; INDIUM; LIGHT; LIGHTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTUBES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 37549067037     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.017991     Document Type: Article

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