Exciton spin relaxation in quasiresonantly excited CdTe/ZnTe self-assembled quantum dots

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 1-9

  Mackowski, S ^a   Nguyen, T A ^a   Gurung, T ^a   Hewaparakrama, K ^a   Jackson, H E ^a   Smith, L M ^a   Wrobel, J ^b   Fronc, K ^b   Kossut, J ^b   Karczewski, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; TELLURIUM; ZINC;

ABSORPTION; ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EXCITATION; PHONON; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM DOT;

EID: 20144361813     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.70.245312     Document Type: Article

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