Direct spectroscopic evidence for the formation of one-dimensional wetting wires during the growth of InGaAs/GaAs quantum dot chains

Nano Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1847-1851

  Wang, Xiaoyong ^a   Wang, Zhiming M ^b   Liang, Baolai ^b   Salamo, Gregory J ^b   Shih, Chih Kang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCITATION MEASUREMENTS; ONE-DIMENSIONAL (1D) WETTING WIRES; POLARIZATION ANISOTROPIES; STRANSKY-KRASTANOV GROWTH;

ADSORPTION; ANISOTROPY; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR GROWTH; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

GALLIUM; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; INDIUM; INDIUM ARSENIDE; NANOTUBE; ORGANOARSENIC DERIVATIVE; QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WETTABILITY;

ARSENICALS; CRYSTALLIZATION; GALLIUM; INDIUM; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOTUBES; PARTICLE SIZE; QUANTUM DOTS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WETTABILITY;

EID: 33749683622     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl060271t     Document Type: Article

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