Visible photoluminescence in polycrystalline terbium doped aluminum nitride (Tb:AlN) ceramics with high thermal conductivity

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Wieg, A T ^a   Kodera, Y ^a   Wang, Z ^a   Imai, T ^b   Dames, C ^c   Garay, J E ^a  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

^b RYUKOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUTY CYCLES; HIGH THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; HOST MATERIALS; LIGHT EMITTING PROPERTIES; LOW THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; ND-DOPED; ON CURRENTS; POLY-CRYSTALLINE BULK; POLYCRYSTALLINE; POWER OUT PUT; RARE EARTH DOPED; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STATE OF THE ART; VISIBLE PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; YTTRIUM ALUMINUM GARNET;

ALUMINUM NITRIDE; CERAMIC MATERIALS; LIGHT SOURCES; SOLID STATE LASERS; TERBIUM; YTTRIUM;

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84866328104     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4751856     Document Type: Article

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