Electrically tunable electroluminescence from SiNx-based light-emitting devices

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 17359-17366

  Li, Dongsheng ^a   Wang, Feng ^a   Yang, Deren ^a   Que, Duanlin ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; SILVER;

BAND TAIL; BLUE SHIFT; BLUE-SHIFTED; CARRIER INJECTION; ELECTRICALLY TUNABLE; INJECTED CURRENT; LIGHT EMITTING DEVICES; LUMINOUS LAYERS; RELATIVE INTENSITY; SILVER NANOPARTICLES; TRANSPORT MECHANISM;

SILICON NITRIDE;

EID: 84864610813     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.017359     Document Type: Article

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