Low-resistance Ohmic contact for GaN-based laser diodes

Junfei Wang; Junhui Hu; Chaowen Guan; Songke Fang; Zhichong Wang; Guobin Wang; Ke Xu; Tengbo Lv; Xiaoli Wang; Jianyang Shi; Ziwei Li; Junwen Zhang; Nan Chi; Chao Shen

doi:10.1088/1674-4926/24060018

Journal of Semiconductors, Volume. 45, Issue 12, 122502(2024)

Low-resistance Ohmic contact for GaN-based laser diodes

Junfei Wang, Junhui Hu, Chaowen Guan, Songke Fang, Zhichong Wang, Guobin Wang, Ke Xu, Tengbo Lv, Xiaoli Wang, Jianyang Shi, Ziwei Li, Junwen Zhang, Nan Chi, and Chao Shen^*

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Key Laboratory for Information Science of Electromagnetic Waves (MoE), School of Information Science and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China

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Junfei Wang, Junhui Hu, Chaowen Guan, Songke Fang, Zhichong Wang, Guobin Wang, Ke Xu, Tengbo Lv, Xiaoli Wang, Jianyang Shi, Ziwei Li, Junwen Zhang, Nan Chi, Chao Shen. Low-resistance Ohmic contact for GaN-based laser diodes[J]. Journal of Semiconductors, 2024, 45(12): 122502

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Category: Research Articles

Received: Jun. 19, 2024

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Published Online: Jan. 15, 2025

The Author Email: Chao Shen (CShen)

DOI:10.1088/1674-4926/24060018

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