Remarkable decrease in threshold for electrically pumped random ultraviolet lasing from ZnO film by incorporation of Zn2TiO4 nanoparticles

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 8662-8669

  Li, Yunpeng ^a   Ma, Xiangyang ^a   Xu, Mingsheng ^a   Xiang, Luelue ^a   Yang, Deren ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT EMISSION; METAL INSULATOR BOUNDARIES; METALLIC FILMS; MIS DEVICES; NANOPARTICLES; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; ZINC;

ELECTRICALLY PUMPED; LIGHT EMITTING LAYERS; LOW THRESHOLDS; METAL-INSULATOR-SEMICONDUCTORS; MULTIPLE LIGHT SCATTERING; PURE ZNO; RANDOM LASERS; RANDOM LASING; SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS; THRESHOLD CURRENTS; TIO; ULTRAVIOLET LASING; ZNO; ZNO FILMS;

ZINC OXIDE;

NANOPARTICLE; TITANIUM; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; ZINC OXIDE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SOLID STATE LASER;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; NANOPARTICLES; TITANIUM; ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 79955439708     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.008662     Document Type: Article

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