Tailoring the optical characteristics of microsized InP nanoneedles directly grown on silicon

Nano Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 183-190

  Li, Kun ^a   Sun, Hao ^a,b   Ren, Fan ^a   Ng, Kar Wei ^a   Tran, Thai Truong D ^a   Chen, Roger ^a   Chang Hasnain, Connie J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

InP nanowire; nanolaser; photovoltaics; silicon; type II; wurtzite

Indexed keywords

INP; NANO LASERS; PHOTOVOLTAICS; TYPE-II; WURTZITES;

DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); NANONEEDLES; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SILICON; ZINC SULFIDE;

MONOCRYSTALLINE SILICON;

EID: 84892141519     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl403712f     Document Type: Article

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