Electric tuning of direct-indirect optical transitions in silicon

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Noborisaka, J ^a   Nishiguchi, K ^a   Fujiwara, A ^a  

^a Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory of NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

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EID: 84923267591     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06950     Document Type: Article

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