Aluminum nitride nanowire light emitting diodes: Breaking the fundamental bottleneck of deep ultraviolet light sources

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Zhao, S ^a   Connie, A T ^a   Dastjerdi, M H T ^a   Kong, X H ^a   Wang, Q ^a   Djavid, M ^a   Sadaf, S ^a   Liu, X D ^a   Shih, I ^a   Guo, H ^a   Mi, Z ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 84923360066     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep08332     Document Type: Article

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