Nanowire photonics

Nature Photonics

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 569-576

  Yan, Ruoxue ^a,b   Gargas, Daniel ^a,b   Yang, Peidong ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING BLOCKES; FULLY INTEGRATED; LIGHT GENERATION; MICROCAVITY LASER; NANOMETRES; NON-LINEAR OPTICAL; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOWIRE; SUB-WAVELENGTH STRUCTURES;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

NANOWIRES;

EID: 70349843701     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2009.184     Document Type: Review

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