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Nature Materials 5, 769 - 770 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nmat1728
Solid-state lighting: The benefit of disorder
Oliver Brandt1 and Klaus H. Ploog1
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Oliver Brandt and Klaus H. Ploog are at the Paul-Drude-Institut für Festkörperelektronik, 10117 Berlin, Germany
e-mail: brandt@pdi-berlin.de
Abstract
Despite their huge commercial success, the physical reasons for the high luminescence efficiency of (In,Ga)N light-emitting diodes are poorly understood. New experiments provide direct evidence for the crucial role of local atomic configurations on the material's high brightness.
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