Spatially resolved photoelectric performance of axial GaAs nanowire pn-diodes

Nano Research

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 987-995

  Lysov, Andrey ^a   Vinaji, Sasa ^a   Offer, Matthias ^a   Gutsche, Christoph ^a   Regolin, Ingo ^a   Mertin, Wolfgang ^a   Geller, Martin ^a   Prost, Werner ^a   Bacher, Gerd ^a   Tegude, Franz Josef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

electroluminescence; GaAs; Kelvin probe force microscopy; nanowire; scanning photocurrent microscopy; solar cells

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053460591     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-011-0155-4     Document Type: Article

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