Engineering light absorption in semiconductor nanowire devices

Nature Materials

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 643-647

  Cao, Linyou ^a   White, Justin S ^a   Park, Joon Shik ^a,b   Schuller, Jon A ^a   Clemens, Bruce M ^a   Brongersma, Mark L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Korea Electronic Technology Institute (KETI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT MODULATORS; LIGHT SOURCES; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOWIRES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

GERMANIUM NANOWIRES; HIGH REFRACTIVE INDEX; HIGH-PERFORMANCE SEMICONDUCTORS; NANOSTRUCTURE SYNTHESIS; PHOTON CONFINEMENT; RESONANT ENHANCEMENTS; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOSTRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOWIRE;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

EID: 69249203487     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2477     Document Type: Article

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