Bandstructures of conical quantum dots with wetting layers

Nanotechnology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-8

  Melnik, R V N ^a   Willatzen, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; WETTING;

ARNOLDI ITERATIONS; BARRIER MATERIAL; CONICAL QUANTUM DOTS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 0742269384     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/15/1/001     Document Type: Article

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