Atomic structure of luminescent centers in high-efficiency Ce-doped w-AlN single crystal

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Ishikawa, Ryo ^a   Lupini, Andrew R ^a   Oba, Fumiyasu ^b,c   Findlay, Scott D ^d   Shibata, Naoya ^e,f   Taniguchi, Takashi ^g   Watanabe, Kenji ^g   Hayashi, Hiroyuki ^b   Sakai, Toshifumi ^b   Tanaka, Isao ^b,h   Ikuhara, Yuichi ^e,h   Pennycook, Stephen J ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

^h JAPAN FINE CERAMICS CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM DERIVATIVE; ALUMINUM NITRIDE; CERIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; LUMINESCENCE; PARTICLE SIZE;

ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; CERIUM; CRYSTALLIZATION; LUMINESCENCE; PARTICLE SIZE;

EID: 84897998912     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03778     Document Type: Article

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