Electroluminescence of out-of-plane silicon nanowire/silver oxide/silver nanodendrite heterostructures

Optical Materials Express

Volumn 1, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1210-1215

  Hsu, W Chuck ^a   Chyan, Jun Yi ^b   Lu, Yen Sheng ^c   Yeh, J Andrew ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Sino American Silicon Productions Inc   (Taiwan)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECT BAND GAP; EMITTED LIGHT; FILL-FACTOR; FORWARD BIAS; HETEROSTRUCTURE DEVICES; LIGHT EMITTING SOURCES; NANO SCALE; OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS; OUT-OF-PLANE; PHOTON ENERGY; SILICON NANOWIRES; SILICON SUBSTRATES; SILICON-BASED; SILVER NANOPARTICLES;

DISPLAY DEVICES; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; SILVER; WET ETCHING; ENERGY GAP; LIGHT; LIGHT EMISSION; NANOWIRES; SILVER NANOPARTICLES;

HETEROJUNCTIONS; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84859735638     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21593930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OME.1.001210     Document Type: Article

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