Metamorphosis of a quantum wire into quantum dots

Nature

Volumn 390, Issue 6655, 1997, Pages 54-57

  Hasen, Joel ^a   Pfeiffer, Loren N ^a   Pinczuk, Aron ^a   He, Song ^a   West, Ken W ^a   Dennis, Brian S ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCITONS; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES;

GALLIUM ARSENIDE QUANTUM WIRE; METAMORPHOSIS;

ELECTRON TRANSITIONS;

ARTICLE; DEVICE; ENERGY; LUMINESCENCE; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SEMICONDUCTOR; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0031556758     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/36299     Document Type: Article

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