Effect of elemental composition and size on electron confinement in self-assembled SiC quantum dots: A combinatorial approach

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 105, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Das Arulsamy, A ^a   Rider, A E ^a,b   Cheng, Q J ^a,b   Xu, S ^c   Ostrikov, K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON CONTENT; COMBINATORIAL APPROACH; ELECTRON CONFINEMENT; ELEMENTAL COMPOSITIONS; IONIZATION ENERGIES; NANO SCALE; NANOSCALE SYNTHESIS; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTRUM; PROCESS SYNTHESIS; QUANTUM CONFINEMENT STRUCTURE; QUANTUM DOT; QUANTUM DOTS; RF-MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; SELF-ASSEMBLED; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; IONIZATION; MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PLASMA CONFINEMENT; SILICON CARBIDE; STEEL ANALYSIS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 67249126531     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3116226     Document Type: Article

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