Polarized GaN-based LED with an integrated multi-layer subwavelength structure

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 7019-7030

  Zhang, Guiju ^a   Wang, Chinhua ^a   Cao, Bing ^a   Huang, Zengli ^b   Wang, Jianfeng ^b   Zhang, Baoshun ^b   Xu, Ke ^b  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SUZHOU INSTITUTE OF NANO TECH AND NANO BIONICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; GALLIUM ALLOYS; LIGHT EXTINCTION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; METALS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TRUCK TRAILERS; ZINC SULFIDE;

DIELECTRIC TRANSITION; EXTINCTION RATIOS; METALLIC GRATINGS; MULTILAYER STRUCTURES; OPERATING WAVELENGTH; POLARIZATION EXTINCTION RATIO; SUB-WAVE LENGTH GRATING; SUB-WAVELENGTH STRUCTURES;

GALLIUM NITRIDE;

GALLIUM; GALLIUM NITRIDE; METAL;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; OPTICS; PHOTON; REFRACTOMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GALLIUM; LIGHT; METALS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY;

EID: 77950232513     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.007019     Document Type: Article

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