Optical spectra of doubly charged quantum dot molecules in electric and magnetic fields

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Doty, M F ^a,b   Scheibner, M ^a   Bracker, A S ^a   Ponomarev, I V ^a   Reinecke, T L ^a   Gammon, D ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

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EID: 52949085831     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.115316     Document Type: Article

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