Engineering the Carrier Dynamics of InGaN Nanowire White Light-Emitting Diodes by Distributed p-AlGaN Electron Blocking Layers

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Nguyen, Hieu Pham Trung ^a,b   Djavid, Mehrdad ^a   Woo, Steffi Y ^c   Liu, Xianhe ^a   Connie, Ashfiqua T ^a   Sadaf, Sharif ^a   Wang, Qi ^a   Botton, Gianluigi A ^c   Shih, Ishiang ^a   Mi, Zetian ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 84927140855     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep07744     Document Type: Article

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