Picosecond time-resolved bleaching dynamics of self-assembled quantum dots

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 348-352

  Bogaart, Erik W ^a   Haverkort, Jos E M ^a   Mano, T ^a   Notzel R ^a   Wolter, Joachim H ^a   Lever, P ^b   Tan, H H ^b   Jagadish, C ^b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bleaching; Dynamics; Quantum dots (QDs); Spectroscopy; Time resolved

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON TRAPS; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; OPTICAL SWITCHES; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

BLEACHING (QUANTUM DOTS); BLEACHING DECAY TIME; TIME RESOLVED; TIME RESOLVED PUMP-PROBE DIFFERENTIAL REFLECTION SPECTROSCOPY;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 4544298155     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2004.828572     Document Type: Article

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