Wavelength-tunable infrared light emitting diode based on ordered ZnO nanowire/Si1–xGex alloy heterojunction

Nano Research

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2676-2685

  Zhang, Taiping ^a   Liang, Renrong ^b   Dong, Lin ^a   Wang, Jing ^b   Xu, Jun ^b   Pan, Caofeng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

infrared light emitting diode; SiGe alloy; wavelength tunable; ZnO nanowire

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939263366     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-015-0774-2     Document Type: Article

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