Excitonic switches operating at around 100K

Nature Photonics

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 577-580

  Grosso, G ^a   Graves, J ^a   Hammack, A T ^a   High, A A ^a   Butov, L V ^a   Hanson, M ^b   Gossard, A C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING BLOCKES; COUPLED QUANTUM WELL STRUCTURE; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; EXCITONIC SWITCHES; OPERATION TEMPERATURE; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PROOF OF PRINCIPLES; SWITCHING DEVICES;

EXCITONS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ELECTRON DEVICES;

EID: 70349813755     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2009.166     Document Type: Article

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