Imaging the wave-function amplitudes in cleaved semiconductor quantum boxes

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1068-1071

  Grandidier, B ^a   Niquet, Y M ^a   Legrand, B ^a   Nys, J P ^a   Priester, C ^a   Stievenard D ^a   Gerard J M ^b   Thierry Mieg, V ^b  

^a INSTITUT D ELECTRONIQUE   (France)

^b ORANGE LABS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GROUND STATE; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM COMPOUNDS; TEMPERATURE;

CONDUCTION BAND STATES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM BOXES; SEMICONDUCTOR ZERO DIMENSIONAL QUANTUM STRUCTURE; SINGLE BAND EFFECTIVE MASS APPROXIMATION; WAVE FUNCTION AMPLITUDE;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES;

EID: 0034229236     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.1068     Document Type: Article

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