Electronic structures of [110]-faceted self-assembled pyramidal inas/gaas quantum dots

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 5678-5687

  Wang, L ^a   Kim, Jeongnim ^a   Zunger, Alex ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0001114091     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.59.5678     Document Type: Article

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