Theory of carrier and photon dynamics in quantum dot light emitters

Physica Status Solidi (B) Basic Research

Volumn 247, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 809-828

  Dachner, Matthias René ^a   Malic, Ermin ^a   Richter, Marten ^a   Carmele, Alexander ^a   Kabuss, Julia ^a   Wilms, Alexander ^a   Kim, Jeong Eun ^a   Hartmann, Gregor ^a   Wolters, Janik ^a   Bandelow, Uwe ^b   Knorr, Andreas ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b WEIERSTRASS INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ANALYSIS AND STOCHASTICS   (Germany)

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EID: 77950793309     PISSN: 03701972     EISSN: 15213951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pssb.200945433     Document Type: Article

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