Spatially resolved visible luminescence of self-assembled semiconductor quantum dots

Science

Volumn 267, Issue 5206, 1995, Pages 1966-1968

  Leon, R ^a,b   Petroff, P M ^a   Leonard, D ^a   Fafard, S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHODOLUMINESCENCE; COMPOSITION; CRYSTAL DEFECTS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LUMINESCENCE; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR GROWTH;

SELF ASSEMBLED SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SPATIALLY RESOLVED VISIBLE LUMINESCENCE;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 0029272305     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.267.5206.1966     Document Type: Article

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33. The authors would like to thank M. Krishnamurthy for initiating this work at the University of California, Santa Barbara, T. Tran and J. English for technical assistance, and A. Gossard for critical reading of the manuscript. This research was supported by National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center QUEST (DMR #91-20007) and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (F9620-98-J0214). S.F. would like to acknowledge the National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada for financial support.