Single-electron charging of a self-assembled II-VI quantum dot

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 3946-3948

  Seufert, J ^a   Rambach, M ^a   Bacher, G ^a   Forchel, A ^a   Passow, T ^b   Hommel, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CHARGE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; LITHOGRAPHY; MASKS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SEMICONDUCTING CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING ZINC COMPOUNDS;

SINGLE-ELECTRON INJECTION;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 0038307234     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1580632     Document Type: Article

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