Progress on one-dimensional zinc oxide nanomaterials based photonic devices

Nanophotonics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 99-115

  Willander, Magnus ^a   Israr, Muhammad Q ^a   Sadaf, Jamil R ^a   Nur, Omer ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Laser diodes; Light emitting diodes; Nanostructures; Zinc oxide

Indexed keywords

DIODES; LIGHT; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; NANORODS; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TEMPERATURE; YARN; ZINC; ZINC OXIDE;

ELECTRICALLY PUMPED LASERS; LUMINESCENCE CHARACTERISTICS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL NANOSTRUCTURE; SYNTHETIC PROCEDURES; TIME-RESOLVED PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; WHITE LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; ZINC OXIDE NANOMATERIALS; ZNO NANOSTRUCTURES;

PHOTONIC DEVICES;

EID: 84887052867     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21928614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2012-0006     Document Type: Article

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