Room-temperature electroluminescence from Si microdisks with Ge quantum dots

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 13945-13950

  Xia, Jinsong ^a   Takeda, Yuuki ^a   Usami, Noritaka ^b   Maruizumi, Takuya ^a   Shiraki, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a TOKYO CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GERMANIUM; RESONATORS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; VIDEODISKS;

CURRENT INJECTIONS; GE QUANTUM DOT; GE SELF-ASSEMBLED QUANTUM DOTS; LIGHT EMITTING DEVICES; MICRODISK RESONATORS; MICRODISKS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; P-I-N JUNCTIONS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SILICON-BASED; SILICON-ON-INSULATORS; WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

ELECTROLUMINESCENCE;

GERMANIUM; QUANTUM DOT; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LUMINESCENCE; OPTICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GERMANIUM; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MINIATURIZATION; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; QUANTUM DOTS; SILICON; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77953865083     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.013945     Document Type: Article

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