Gain without inversion in semiconductor nanostructures

Nature Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 175-178

  Frogley, M D ^a   Dynes, J F ^a   Beck, M ^b   Faist, J ^b   Phillips, C C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRON DENSITY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ENERGY ABSORPTION; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHONONS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

ARTIFICIAL ATOM ELECTRONS; BEAM ENERGY; GAIN WITHOUT INVERSION (GWI); SEMICONDUCTOR NANOSTRUCTURES;

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 33644611537     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1586     Document Type: Article

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