Direct generation of linearly polarized photon emission with designated orientations from site-controlled InGaN quantum dots

Light: Science and Applications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Lundskog, Anders ^a   Hsu, Chih Wei ^a   Fredrik Karlsson, K ^a   Amloy, Supaluck ^a,b   Nilsson, Daniel ^a   Forsberg, Urban ^a   Olof Holtz, Per ^a   Janzén, Erik ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b THAKSIN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

GaN; InGaN; photoluminescence; polarized emission; quantum dot

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM NITRIDE; NANOCRYSTALS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION;

CONTROLLED POLARIZATION; GAN; INGAN; INGAN QUANTUM DOTS; LINEARLY POLARIZED; POLARIZATION VECTORS; POLARIZED EMISSIONS; QUANTUM DOT;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84898077970     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20477538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/lsa.2014.20     Document Type: Article

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