Tunable subpicosecond optoelectronic transduction in superlattices of self-assembled ErAs nanoislands

Nature Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 122-126

  Griebel, Martin ^a   Smet, Jurgen H ^a   Driscoll, Daniel C ^b   Kuhl, Jürgen ^a   Diez, Cristina Alvarez ^a   Freytag, Nicolas ^a   Kadow, Christoph ^b   Gossard, Arthur C ^b   Von Klitzing, Klaus ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM COMPOUNDS; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTODETECTORS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SUPERLATTICES; TRANSDUCERS;

OPTOELECTRONIC TRANSDUCTION;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SEMICONDUCTOR;

NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 0037313448     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat819     Document Type: Article

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