Observation of the collective Coulomb blockade effect in a constant-current-driven high-speed light-emitting diode

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1295-1298

  Abe, Jun'ichi ^a   Shinozaki, Gen ^a   Hirano, Takuya ^a   Kuga, Takahiro ^a   Yamanishi, Masamichi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRON EMISSION; LIGHT; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

COLLECTIVE COULOMB BLOCKADE EFFECT; RADIATIVE LIFETIME; SQUEEZING BANDWIDTH; THERMIONIC EMISSION TIME;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0031164061     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.14.001295     Document Type: Article

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