Role of the interface for the electronic structure of Si quantum dots

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  König, Dirk ^a   Rudd, James ^a   Green, Martin A ^a   Conibeer, Gavin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

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EID: 49149125519     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.035339     Document Type: Article

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