Electro-elastic tuning of single particles in individual self-assembled quantum dots

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3761-3765

  Kuklewicz, Christopher E ^a   Malein, Ralph N E ^a   Petroff, Pierre M ^b   Gerardot, Brian D ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Coulomb blockade; photoluminescence; Quantum dots; uniaxial strain

Indexed keywords

EXCITON ENERGIES; FINE STRUCTURE SPLITTING; INGAAS QUANTUM DOTS; MULTIPLE QUANTUM DOTS; PERMANENT DIPOLES; SELF ASSEMBLED QUANTUM DOTS; SINGLE PARTICLE; SINGLE-PARTICLE ENERGY; TUNABLE DEVICE; UNI-AXIAL STRAINS; UNIAXIAL STRESS;

COULOMB BLOCKADE; EXCITONS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84863813208     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl301621u     Document Type: Article

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