Quantum size effects on excitonic coulomb and exchange energies in finite-barrier semiconductor quantum dots

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 60, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 10672-10675

  Ferreyra, J M ^a   Proetto, C R ^a  

^a CENTRO ATÓMICO BARILOCHE   (Argentina)

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EID: 0001545859     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.60.10672     Document Type: Article

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