Resonant tunneling barriers in quantum dots-in-a-well infrared photodetectors

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1105-1114

  Barve, Ajit ^a   Shao, Jiayi ^a   Sharma, Yagya D ^a   Vandervelde, Thomas E ^a,b   Sankalp, Krit ^c   Lee, Sang Jun ^d   Noh, Sam Kyu ^d   Krishna, Sanjay ^a  

^a MSC01 1070   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^d Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Dots in a well (DWELL); Infrared; Photodetectors; Quantum dots; Resonant tunneling (RT)

Indexed keywords

DOTS IN A WELLS; INFRARED PHOTODETECTOR; LONG WAVE INFRARED; LONG WAVES; ORDERS-OF-MAGNITUDE; QUANTUM DOT; SPECIFIC DETECTIVITY; SPECTRAL RESPONSE;

DESIGN; INFRARED DETECTORS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTODETECTORS; RESONANT TUNNELING; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; WIND TUNNELS;

QUANTUM WELL INFRARED PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 77950680441     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2010.2043789     Document Type: Article

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