Self-organized anisotropic strain engineering: A new concept for quantum dot ordering

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 91, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1898-1906

  Nötzel, Richard ^a   Mano, Takaaki ^a   Gong, Qian ^a   Wolter, Joachim H ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE); Nanoscale networks; Quantum dot; Quantum wire; Self organization

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE PHENOMENA; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; STRAIN RATE; SUPERLATTICES;

NANOSCALE NETWORKS; OPTICAL QUALITY; QUANTUM WIRE; SELF-ORGANIZATION;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 3242729293     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2003.818322     Document Type: Conference Paper

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