MOVPE-grown AlGaN-based tunnel heterojunctions enabling fully transparent UVC LEDs

Christian Kuhn; Luca Sulmoni; Martin Guttmann; Johannes Glaab; Norman Susilo; Tim Wernicke; Markus Weyers; Michael Kneissl

doi:10.1364/PRJ.7.0000B7

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