Electroluminescence from ZnO-nanofilm/Simicropillar heterostructure arrays

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 24280-24287

  Chan, Yu Fei ^a   Su, Wei ^b   Zhang, Chang Xing ^a   Wu, Zheng Long ^c   Tang, Ying ^a   Sun, Xiao Qi ^a   Xu, Hai Jun ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT MODELS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FORWARD CURRENTS; MICRO PILLARS; NANO-POROUS; ONSET VOLTAGES; P-TYPE; PILLAR ARRAYS; RECTIFYING BEHAVIORS; SOLID STATE LIGHTING; WHITE LIGHT; ZNO;

ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; HETEROJUNCTIONS; ZINC OXIDE;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 84868217496     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.024280     Document Type: Article

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