Optical emission from a charge-tunable quantum ring

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6789, 2000, Pages 926-929

  Warburton, R J ^a,c   Schaflein C ^a   Haft, D ^a   Bickel, F ^a   Lorke, A ^a   Karrai, K ^a   Garcia, J M ^b   Schoenfeld, W ^b   Petroff, P M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b University of California at Santa Barbara   (United States)

^c HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE

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ARTICLE; ELECTRON; EMBEDDING; FLAME PHOTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; LASER; LUMINESCENCE; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SURFACE CHARGE;

EID: 3543059738     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35016030     Document Type: Article

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