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Photonics Research
Vol. 8, Issue 6, 812 (2020)

Revealing the surface electronic structures of AlGaN deep-ultraviolet multiple quantum wells with lateral polarity domains

Wei Guo^1、2, Li Chen^1、2, Houqiang Xu^1、2, Yingda Qian³, Moheb Sheikhi^1、2, Jason Hoo⁴, Shiping Guo⁴, Liang Xu⁵, Jianzhe Liu⁵, Feras Alqatari⁶, Xiaohang Li⁶, Kaiyan He³, Zhe Chuan Feng³, and Jichun Ye^1、2、*

Author Affiliations

¹Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo 315201, China

²University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

³College of Physics Science & Technology, Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Detection Technology, Guangxi Key Laboratory for the Relativistic Astrophysics, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China

⁴Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc., Shanghai 201201, China

⁵Zhe Jiang Bright Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd., Jinhua 321026, China

⁶Advanced Semiconductor Laboratory, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955, Saudi Arabia

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Wei Guo, Li Chen, Houqiang Xu, Yingda Qian, Moheb Sheikhi, Jason Hoo, Shiping Guo, Liang Xu, Jianzhe Liu, Feras Alqatari, Xiaohang Li, Kaiyan He, Zhe Chuan Feng, Jichun Ye. Revealing the surface electronic structures of AlGaN deep-ultraviolet multiple quantum wells with lateral polarity domains[J]. Photonics Research, 2020, 8(6): 812 Copy Citation Text

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