Enhanced light extraction by photonic quasi-crystals in gan blue LEDs

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1269-1274

  Shields, Philip A ^a   Charlton, Martin D B ^b,c   Lee, Tom ^b,d   Zoorob, Majd E ^b,d   Allsopp, Duncan W E ^a   Wang, Wang N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b Mesophotonics Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d PhotonStar LED Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electroluminescence; Extraction; LEDs; Photonic crystals

Indexed keywords

BLUE LEDS; EMISSION ENHANCEMENT; EPITAXIAL SUBSTRATES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FAR-FIELD; FILLING FACTOR; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; LEDS; LIGHT EXTRACTION; PHOTONIC QUASICRYSTAL;

ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; ELECTRON BEAMS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; LIGHT; LIGHT EMISSION; QUASICRYSTALS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 70349338899     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2009.2016674     Document Type: Article

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