Statistical analysis of excitonic transitions in single, free-standing GaN nanowires: Probing impurity incorporation in the poissonian limit

Nano Research

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 881-888

  Pfüller, Carsten ^a   Brandt, Oliver ^a   Flissikowski, Timur ^a   Chèze, Caroline ^a   Geelhaar, Lutz ^a   Grahn, Holger T ^a   Riechert, Henning ^a  

^a PAUL DRUDE INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERELEKTRONIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

doping; excitonic luminescence; impurities; scaling; Single nanowires

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650417978     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-010-0061-1     Document Type: Article

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