Electrical and optical characteristics of highly transparent MOVPE-grown AlGaN-based tunnel heterojunction LEDs emitting at 232 nm

Frank Mehnke; Christian Kuhn; Martin Guttmann; Luca Sulmoni; Verena Montag; Johannes Glaab; Tim Wernicke; Michael Kneissl

doi:10.1364/PRJ.414315

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