Surface-plasmon-enhanced deep-UV light emitting diodes based on AlGaN multi-quantum wells

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Gao, Na ^a   Huang, Kai ^a   Li, Jinchai ^a   Li, Shuping ^a   Yang, Xu ^a   Kang, Junyong ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84869202193     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00816     Document Type: Article

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