Wave-function mapping of inas quantum dots by scanning tunneling spectroscopy

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 19, 2003, Pages

  Maltezopoulos, Theophilos ^a   Bolz, Arne ^a   Meyer, Christian ^a   Heyn, Christian ^a   Hansen, Wolfgang ^a   Morgenstern, Markus ^a   Wiesendanger, Roland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR GROWTH; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE; WAVE EQUATIONS;

ELECTRONIC ANISOTROPY; ENERGY SEQUENCES OF STATES; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM ARSENIDE; SHAPE ASYMMETRY OF THE DOTS; SINGLE ELECTRON STATES; WAVE FUNCTION MAPPING;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 0348107265     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.196804     Document Type: Article

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