Is ZnO as a universal semiconductor material an oxymoron?

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8987, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Hussain, B ^a   Kucukgok, B ^a   Raja, M Y A ^a,b   Klein, Benjamin ^c   Lu, N ^a   Ferguson, I T ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

HEMTs; LEDs; MOCVD; Neutron detection; TFTs; Thermoelectricity; Zinc oxide

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; METALLORGANIC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; THERMOELECTRICITY;

EMERGING APPLICATIONS; HEMTS; LEDS; NEUTRON DETECTION; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; SYNTHESIS TECHNIQUES; TFTS; WIDE-BAND-GAP SEMICONDUCTOR;

ZINC OXIDE;

EID: 84901809588     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2042926     Document Type: Conference Paper

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