Controlling the dynamics of spontaneous emission from quantum dots by photonic crystals

Nature

Volumn 430, Issue 7000, 2004, Pages 654-657

  Lodahl, Peter ^a   Van Driel, A Floris ^b   Nikolaev, Ivan S ^a   Irman, Arie ^a   Overgaag, Karin ^a   Vanmaekelbergh, Daniël ^b   Vos, Willem L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; LASERS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SOLAR ENERGY;

MINIATURE LASERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

OPTICAL THEORY; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL; LASER; LIGHT; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OPTICS; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SEMICONDUCTOR; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLID STATE; VACUUM;

EID: 4043152866     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02772     Document Type: Article

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