Nonequilibrium hot-electron-induced wavelength-tunable incandescent-type light sources

Zhipeng Sun; Mingming Jiang; Wangqi Mao; Caixia Kan; Chongxin Shan; Dezhen Shen

doi:10.1364/PRJ.8.000091

Photonics Research, Volume. 8, Issue 1, 91(2020)

Nonequilibrium hot-electron-induced wavelength-tunable incandescent-type light sources On the Cover

Zhipeng Sun^1,2, Mingming Jiang^1,3、*, Wangqi Mao³, Caixia Kan³, Chongxin Shan^1,4,5, and Dezhen Shen^1,6

¹State Key Laboratory of Luminescence and Applications, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033, China

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

³College of Science, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China

⁴School of Physics and Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450052, China

⁵e-mail: cxshan@zzu.edu.cn

⁶e-mail: shendz@ciomp.ac.cn

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Category: Optoelectronics

Received: Jul. 15, 2019

Accepted: Nov. 5, 2019

Published Online: Dec. 23, 2019

The Author Email: Mingming Jiang (mmjiang@nuaa.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.8.000091

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