Review of recent progress of III-nitride nanowire lasers

Journal of Nanophotonics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Arafin, Shamsul ^a   Liu, Xianhe ^a   Mi, Zetian ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fabry P rot; GaN; III nitride nanowires; nanolasers; nanowire heterostructures; photoluminescence; plasmonics; random lasing

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; GALLIUM NITRIDE; III-V SEMICONDUCTORS; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; INFRARED DEVICES; NANOWIRES; NITRIDES; OHMIC CONTACTS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PLASMONICS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; WIDE BAND GAP SEMICONDUCTORS;

III-NITRIDE; NANOLASERS; NANOWIRE HETEROSTRUCTURES; NEAR INFRARED SPECTRAL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL COMPOUNDS; RADIATIVE RECOMBINATION; RANDOM LASING; SURFACE RECOMBINATIONS;

DISTRIBUTED FEEDBACK LASERS;

EID: 84888060168     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19342608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JNP.7.074599     Document Type: Article

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