Millisecond-range electron spin memory in singly-charged InP quantum dots

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Pal, Bipul ^a   Ikezawa, Michio ^a   Masumoto, Yasuaki ^a   Ignatiev, Ivan V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Optical orientation; Pump probe PL; Quantum dots; Spin memory; Two phonon process

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646676743     PISSN: 00319015     EISSN: 00319015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.75.054702     Document Type: Article

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