Recent progress in ZnO-based heterojunction ultraviolet light-emitting devices

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1219-1227

  Liu, Yichun ^a   Xu, Haiyang ^a   Liu, Chunyang ^a   Liu, Weizhen ^a  

^a NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Heterojunction; Progress; Ultraviolet light emitting devices; ZnO

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896544051     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-014-0206-9     Document Type: Article

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