Enhanced absorption and electro-optic Pockels effect of electrostatically self-assembled CdSe quantum dots

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 3969-3976

  Zhang, Fajian ^a   Zhang, Liangmin ^a   Wang, You Xiong ^a   Claus, Richard ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; ELECTROSTATICS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL MULTILAYERS; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SELF ASSEMBLY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

ELECTRO-OPTIC COEFFICIENTS; ELECTROSTATIC SELF-ASSEMBLY (ESA); PHOTONIC DEVICES; STARK EFFECT;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 22144439005     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.003969     Document Type: Article

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