Spontaneous emission spectrum in double quantum dot devices

Science

Volumn 282, Issue 5390, 1998, Pages 932-935

  Fujisawa, Toshimasa ^a,b   Oosterkamp, Tjerk H ^a   Van Der Wiel, Wilfred G ^a   Broer, Benno W ^a   Aguado, Ramón ^a   Tarucha, Seigo ^b,c   Kouwenhoven, Leo P ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory of NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SEMICONDUCTOR; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 0032582710     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5390.932     Document Type: Article

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