Quantum Dots and Nanowires Grown by Metal-Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition for Optoelectronic Device Applications

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1242-1254

  Buda, M ^a,d   Mokkapati, S ^a   Fu, Lan ^a   Jagadish, Chennupati ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Dong A University   (South Korea)

^c TTPcom Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS PHYSICS   (Romania)

Author keywords

Integrated optoelectronics; nanowires; photode; quantum dots; semiconductor lasers; tectors

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008057817     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: 15584542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2006.882663     Document Type: Article

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