Optical near-field mapping of excitons and biexcitons in naturally occurring semiconductor quantum dots

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 3963-3965

  Hohenester, Ulrich ^a   Goldoni, Guido ^b   Molinari, Elisa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRONS; GROUND STATE; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MAPS; MONOLAYERS; PROBABILITY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SPECTROSCOPY;

BIEXCITONS; BOHR RADIUS; OPTICAL SPECTRA; PHOTOEXCITATION;

EXCITONS;

EID: 2942613842     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1741033     Document Type: Article

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