Ultrafast nonlinear gain dynamics in semiconductor nanocrystals

Phase Transitions

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 59-94

  Giessen, Harald ^a,b,d   Butty, Jerôme ^a   Woggon, Ulrike ^c   Fluegel, Brian ^a,e   Mohs, Georg ^a,f   Hu, Yuan Z ^a   Koch, Stephan W ^a,d   Peyghambarian, Nasser ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^d PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^e NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE CARRIERS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; EXCITONS; GLASS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT SCATTERING; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHONONS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SEMICONDUCTING CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

CADMIUM SELENIDE; CADMIUM SULFIDE; ULTRAFAST NONLINEAR GAIN DYNAMICS;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 0032649750     PISSN: 01411594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01411599908224515     Document Type: Article

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