Structure and photoluminescence of single AlGaAs/GaAs quantum dots grown in inverted tetrahedral pyramids

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 73, Issue 16, 1998, Pages 2322-2324

  Hartmann, Arno ^a   Ducommun, Yann ^a   Loubies, Laurent ^a   Leifer, Klaus ^a   Kapon, Eli ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

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EID: 0000659341     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.121810     Document Type: Article

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