Effect of uniaxial stress on excitons in a self-assembled quantum dot

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 20, 2006, Pages

  Seidl, Stefan ^a,b   Kroner, Martin ^a   Högele, Alexander ^a   Karrai, Khaled ^a   Warburton, Richard J ^b   Badolato, Antonio ^c   Petroff, Pierre M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL AXIS; FINE STRUCTURE; HIGH-RESOLUTION LASER SPECTROSCOPY; UNIAXIAL STRESS;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION; EXCITONS; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; SELF ASSEMBLY; STRESS RELAXATION;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 33646859514     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2204843     Document Type: Article

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