Electrically driven polarized single-photon emission from an InGaN quantum dot in a GaN nanowire

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Deshpande, Saniya ^a   Heo, Junseok ^a,b   Das, Ayan ^a   Bhattacharya, Pallab ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Ajou University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM; GALLIUM NITRIDE; NANOWIRE; QUANTUM DOT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ELECTRICAL METHOD; EMISSION; FUNDAMENTAL PARTICLE; LINEARITY; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; LUMINESCENCE; PHOTON; POLARIZATION;

EID: 84877744327     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2691     Document Type: Article

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