Adaptive design of excitonic absorption in broken-symmetry quantum wells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 121-123

  Thalken, Jason ^a   Li, Weifei ^a   Haas, Stephan ^a   Levi, A F J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHODOLOGY; NUMERICAL OPTIMIZATION; STARK EFFECTS; WAVE FUNCTION;

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRONS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT MODULATION; OPTICAL RESONATORS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTONS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 3242740384     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1768311     Document Type: Article

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