A study of nitrogen incorporation in pyramidal site-controlled quantum dots

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-7

  Juska, Gediminas ^a   Dimastrodonato, Valeria ^a   Mereni, Lorenzo O ^a   Gocalinska, Agnieszka ^a   Pelucchi, Emanuele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Dilute nitride semiconductors; MOVPE; Site controlled quantum dots

Indexed keywords

DILUTE NITRIDES; EXCITONIC TRANSITION; FINE STRUCTURE SPLITTING; NARROW-LINE WIDTH; NITROGEN INCORPORATION; OPTICAL FEATURES; OPTICAL QUALITIES; RED SHIFT; VARIABLE DISTRIBUTION;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; METALLORGANIC VAPOR PHASE EPITAXY; NITRIDES; NITROGEN; PHOTON CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84856024511     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-6-567     Document Type: Article

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