Intermixing during growth of InAs self-assembled quantum dots in InP: A photoluminescence and tight-binding investigation

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Dion, C ^a,e   Desjardins, P ^a   Shtinkov, N ^b   Robertson, M D ^c   Schiettekatte, F ^d   Poole, P J ^e   Raymond, S ^e  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

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EID: 40949134979     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.075338     Document Type: Article

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