Photoluminescence of ZnO: Basics and applications

Handbook of Luminescent Semiconductor Materials

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 87-124

  Thonke, Klaus ^a   Feneberg, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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