Optical investigation of strong exciton localization in high Al composition AlxGa1-xN alloys

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 24497-24503

  Fan, Shunfei ^a   Qin, Zhixin ^a   He, Chenguang ^a   Hou, Mengjun ^a   Wang, Xinqiang ^a   Shen, Bo ^a   Li, Wei ^b   Wang, Weiying ^b   Mao, Defeng ^b   Jin, Peng ^b   Yan, Jianchang ^b   Dong, Peng ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CERIUM ALLOYS; GALLIUM; GALLIUM ALLOYS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; ZINC SULFIDE;

AL COMPOSITION; EXCITON LOCALIZATION; OPTICAL INVESTIGATION; PICOSECONDS; PL SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TIME-RESOLVED; ZERO-DIMENSIONAL;

SEMICONDUCTOR COUNTERS;

EID: 84886428817     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.024497     Document Type: Article

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