Modeling of minibands and electronic transport in one-dimensional stacks of InAs/GaAs quantum dots

Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems and Nanostructures

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 906-910

  Fomin, V M ^a   Kratzer, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

1D stacks of quantum dots; InAs GaAs quantum dots; Quantum dot superlattices; Relaxation time; Thermoelectric transport

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT; ENERGY SPECTRA; ENHANCED EFFICIENCY; GAAS; INAS QUANTUM DOTS; INAS/GAAS QUANTUM DOTS; MINIBANDS; QUANTUM DOT; QUANTUM DOT SUPERLATTICES; THERMOELECTRIC CONVERTER; THERMOELECTRIC TRANSPORT;

QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SPECTROSCOPY; SUPERLATTICES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 76949087987     PISSN: 13869477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physe.2009.10.033     Document Type: Article

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