Annealing effects on faceting of InAsGaAs (001) quantum dots

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Placidi, E ^a   Della Pia, A ^a   Arciprete, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; GROWTH (MATERIALS); OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PRESSURE DROP; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

ANNEALING EFFECTS; ANNEALING PROCEDURES; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; GROWTH CONDITIONS; LOW ASPECT RATIOS; POSTGROWTH ANNEALING; QUANTUM DOTS;

ASPECT RATIO;

EID: 58349114111     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3056654     Document Type: Article

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