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Negative luminescence and devices based on this phenomenon

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Recent publications concerned with infrared emitters whose electrical modulation results in absorption of radiation detected as negative luminescence are reviewed. The main properties of the devices based on this phenomenon are analyzed.

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Original Russian Text © V.I. Ivanov-Omskii, B.A. Matveev, 2007, published in Fizika i Tekhnika Poluprovodnikov, 2007, Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 257–268.

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Ivanov-Omskii, V.I., Matveev, B.A. Negative luminescence and devices based on this phenomenon. Semiconductors 41, 247–258 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063782607030013

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