The dynamics of tunneling into self-assembled InAs dots

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 74, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 2486-2488

  Luyken, R J ^a   Lorke, A ^a   Govorov, A O ^a,c   Kotthaus, J P ^a   Medeiros Ribeiro, G ^b   Petroff, P M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 0000039719     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.123015     Document Type: Article

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