Exciton spin relaxation in strongly confining semiconductor quantum dots

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 19, 2010, Pages

  Tsitsishvili, E ^a   Kalt, H ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Georgia)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

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EID: 78649747059     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.82.195315     Document Type: Article

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