MOVPE-grown ultrasmall self-organized InGaN nanotips

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-4

  Ji, L W ^b   Chang, S J ^a,c   Fang, T H ^b   Young, S J ^b   Juang, F S ^b  

^a IEEE

^b NATIONAL FORMOSA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy (AFM); InGaN; Metal organic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE); Nanotips; Thermal annealing

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; GALLIUM NITRIDE; METALLORGANIC VAPOR PHASE EPITAXY;

FIELD EMISSION DEVICES; LOCAL DENSITY; THERMAL ANNEALING;

NANOTIPS;

EID: 38349137095     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2007.906641     Document Type: Article

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