Cascaded deep ultraviolet light-emitting diode via tunnel junction

Huabin Yu; Zhongjie Ren; Muhammad Hunain Memon; Shi Fang; Danhao Wang; Zhongling Liu; Haochen Zhang; Feng Wu; Jiangnan Dai; Changqing Chen; Haiding Sun

doi:10.3788/COL202119.082503

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