Type-II behavior in wurtzite InP/InAs/InP core-multishell nanowires

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Pal, B ^a,c   Goto, K ^a   Ikezawa, M ^a   Masumoto, Y ^a   Mohan, P ^b   Motohisa, J ^b   Fukui, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH KOLKATA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRIC WIRE; INDIUM ARSENIDE; LUMINESCENCE; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOWIRES; ZINC SULFIDE;

BAND ALIGNMENTS; BAND OFFSETS; BLUE SHIFTING; COMPRESSIVE STRAINS; DECAY TIME; EXCITATION POWERS; NON-EXPONENTIAL DECAY; OPTICAL-; PERIODIC ARRAYS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE (PL); PL EXCITATION; PLE SPECTRA; STOKES SHIFTS; WURTZITE; WURTZITE CRYSTAL STRUCTURE;

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EID: 50249118989     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2966343     Document Type: Article

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