Realization of high-luminous-efficiency InGaN light-emitting diodes in the "green gap" range

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Jiang, Yang ^a   Li, Yangfeng ^a   Li, Yueqiao ^a   Deng, Zhen ^a   Lu, Taiping ^a   Ma, Ziguang ^a   Zuo, Peng ^a   Dai, Longgui ^a   Wang, Lu ^a   Jia, Haiqiang ^a   Wang, Wenxin ^a   Zhou, Junming ^a   Liu, Wuming ^a   Chen, Hong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

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EID: 84930613237     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep10883     Document Type: Article

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