Optical performance of top-down fabricated InGaN/GaN nanorod light emitting diode arrays

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 25, 2011, Pages 25528-25534

  Li, Qiming ^a   Westlake, Karl R ^a   Crawford, Mary H ^a   Lee, Stephen R ^a   Koleske, Daniel D ^a   Figiel, Jeffery J ^a   Cross, Karen C ^a   Fathololoumi, Saeed ^b   Mi, Zetian ^b   Wang, George T ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANORODS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; WET ETCHING;

CONTROLLABLE DIAMETER; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE ARRAYS; LIGHTEMITTING DIODE(LED) ARRAY; OPTICAL PERFORMANCE; PIEZO-ELECTRIC FIELDS; QUANTUM CONFINED STARK EFFECT; SURFACE RECOMBINATIONS; TOP-DOWN FABRICATION;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

GALLIUM; GALLIUM NITRIDE; INDIUM; INDIUM NITRIDE; NANOTUBE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; SEMICONDUCTOR; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; GALLIUM; INDIUM; LIGHTING; NANOTUBES; SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 82955226232     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.025528     Document Type: Article

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