Room temperature electrically pumped ultraviolet random lasing from ZnO nanorod arrays on Si

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 14426-14433

  Ma, Xiangyang ^a   Pan, Jingwei ^a   Chen, Peiliang ^a   Li, Dongsheng ^a   Zhang, Hui ^a   Yang, Yang ^a   Yang, Deren ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFACES (MATERIALS); METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; MIS DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SILICON; STIMULATED EMISSION; ZINC OXIDE;

AU ELECTRODES; ELECTRICALLY PUMPED; METAL INSULATOR SEMICONDUCTOR STRUCTURES; POPULATION INVERSIONS; POSITIVE VOLTAGE; RANDOM LASING; ZNO NANOROD ARRAYS;

NANORODS;

SILICON; ZINC OXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; LIGHT; MICRO-ELECTRICAL-MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON; TEMPERATURE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 68349157510     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.014426     Document Type: Article

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