Peculiar many-body effects revealed inthespectroscopy of highly charged quantumdots

Nature Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 774-779

  Ediger, M ^a   Bester, G ^b   Badolato, A ^c   Petroff, P M ^c   Karrai, K ^d   Zunger, A ^b   Warburton, R J ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; COULOMB BLOCKADE; COULOMB INTERACTIONS; ELECTRON-ELECTRON INTERACTIONS; ELECTRONS; NANOCRYSTALS;

ATOMISTIC CALCULATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL SPECTRA; HOLE INTERACTIONS; MULTIPLET STRUCTURES; PHOTON EMISSION PROCESS; QUANTIZATION ENERGY; QUANTUM DOT CHARGE; SELF ASSEMBLED QUANTUM DOTS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 35748983902     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys748     Document Type: Article

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