Photonic crystal LEDs - Designing light extraction

Laser and Photonics Reviews

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 262-286

  Wiesmann, Christopher ^a,b   Bergenek, Krister ^a   Linder, Norbert ^a   Schwarz, Ulrich T ^b  

^a OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diffraction; Light emitting diode; Photonics crystal; Semiconductor optoelectronics

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349475622     PISSN: 18638880     EISSN: 18638899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lpor.200810053     Document Type: Review

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