Nanoengineering the second order susceptibility in semiconductor quantum dot heterostructures

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 6657-6670

  Zielinski, Marcin ^a,b   Winter, Shoshana ^c   Kolkowski, Radoslaw ^a   Nogues, Claude ^b   Oron, Dan ^c   Zyss, Joseph ^a,b   Chauvat, Dominique ^a,b  

^a LABORATOIRE DE PHOTONIQUE QUANTIQUE ET MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

^b Institut d'Alembert   (France)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTALS; LIGHT SOURCES; NANOPARTICLES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; TENSORS;

ADDITIVE MODELS; CDTE; CDTE/CDS; CORE/SHELL; GEOMETRICAL PARAMETERS; HETEROSTRUCTURES; NANO-ENGINEERING; NANOMETRICS; NONLINEAR PROPERTIES; POLARIZATION RESPONSE; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SECOND-HARMONIC EMISSION; SECOND-ORDER SUSCEPTIBILITY; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOPARTICLES; SINGLE NANOPARTICLE; THIRD-ORDER TENSORS;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

CADMIUM DERIVATIVE; CADMIUM TELLURIDE; QUANTUM DOT; TELLURIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; MATERIALS TESTING; METHODOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SEMICONDUCTOR;

CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; MATERIALS TESTING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUANTUM DOTS; SEMICONDUCTORS; TELLURIUM;

EID: 79953178641     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.006657     Document Type: Article

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