Spin states of the first four holes in a silicon nanowire quantum dot

Nano Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1071-1079

  Zwanenburg, Floris A ^a,b   Van Rijmenam, Cathalijn E W M ^a,b   Fang, Ying ^a,b   Lieber, Charles M ^a,b   Kouwenhoven, Leo P ^a,b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PHONONS; GROUND-STATE SPINS; HOLE NUMBERS; MAGNETOSPECTROSCOPY; MATERIALS SYSTEMS; PERPENDICULAR MAGNETIC FIELDS; QUANTUM DOTS; SILICON NANOWIRES; SINGLE HOLES; SPIN DOWNS; SPIN STATE; SPIN-UP; ZEEMAN SPLITTING; ZEEMAN STATE;

MAGNETIC FIELDS; NANOWIRES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SPIN DYNAMICS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 65249158673     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl803440s     Document Type: Article

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