Carrier transport properties in the vicinity of single self-assembled quantum dots determined by low-voltage cathodoluminescence imaging

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Dupuy, E ^a,b   Morris, D ^a   Pauc, N ^a,c   Aimez, V ^a   Gendry, M ^b   Drouin, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT DES NANOTECHNOLOGIES DE LYON   (France)

^c CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER MOBILITY; CATHODOLUMINESCENCE; CIVIL AVIATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; LIGHT EMISSION; LUMINESCENCE; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

AMBIPOLAR; AMBIPOLAR DIFFUSIONS; BRIGHT SPOTS; CARRIER TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; CATHODOLUMINESCENCE IMAGING; CL IMAGES; DIFFUSION LENGTHS; INAS/INP; INTENSITY PROFILES; LOW VOLTAGES; QUANTUM DOTS; SPATIALLY RESOLVES; TEMPERATURE RANGING; WETTING LAYERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 58349099048     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3072613     Document Type: Article

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