Ultrafast near-field spectroscopy of single semiconductor quantum dots

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 362, Issue 1817, 2004, Pages 861-879

  Lienau, Christoph ^a  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Near field microscopy; Optical nonlinearities; Quantum dots; Semiconductor nanostructures; Ultrafast spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842589285     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2003.1353     Document Type: Article

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