Electrically pumped waveguide lasing from ZnO nanowires

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 506-510

  Chu, Sheng ^a   Wang, Guoping ^a   Zhou, Weihang ^b   Lin, Yuqing ^c   Chernyak, Leonid ^c   Zhao, Jianze ^a,d   Kong, Jieying ^a   Li, Lin ^a   Ren, Jingjian ^a   Liu, Jianlin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^d DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY COMPOUNDS; BINDING ENERGY; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GALLIUM NITRIDE; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; III-V SEMICONDUCTORS; NANOWIRES; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET LASERS; WAVEGUIDES; WIDE BAND GAP SEMICONDUCTORS; ZINC OXIDE;

BEAM DIVERGENCE; ELECTRICAL PUMPING; ELECTRICALLY PUMPED; EMISSION SPECTRUMS; EXCITON-BINDING ENERGY; HIGHLY STABLES; SHORTER WAVELENGTH; ZINC OXIDE (ZNO);

SEMICONDUCTING ZINC COMPOUNDS;

ANTIMONY; GALLIUM; NANOWIRE; ZINC OXIDE;

ARTICLE; DIODE LASER; ENERGY; FILM; LASER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 79961209221     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2011.97     Document Type: Article

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