Development of a cost effective surface-patterned transparent conductive coating as top-contact of light emitting diodes

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 115, Issue 19, 2014, Pages

  Haldar, Arpita ^a,b   Bera, Susanta ^b   Jana, Sunirmal ^b   Bhattacharya, Kallol ^a   Chakraborty, Rajib ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

^b CSIR CENTRAL GLASS AND CERAMIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS FILMS; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DIFFERENTIAL THERMAL ANALYSIS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LITHOGRAPHY; OXIDE FILMS; SOL-GEL PROCESS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TWO DIMENSIONAL; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

FIELD EMISSION SCANNING; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRA REDS; INDIUM-ZINC-OXIDE FILMS; LIGHT EXTRACTION EFFICIENCY (LEE); OPTIMIZED COMBINATIONS; TIN DOPED INDIUM OXIDE; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTIVE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D) GRATINGS;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 84901457793     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: 10897550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4876737     Document Type: Article

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