Kinetics of pulse-induced photoluminescence from a semiconductor quantum dot

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 27612-27635

  Rukhlenko, Ivan D ^a   Leonov, Mikhail Yu ^b   Turkov, Vadim K ^b   Litvin, Aleksandr P ^b   Baimuratov, Anvar S ^b   Baranov, Alexander V ^b   Fedorov, Anatoly V ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ITMO UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC EXPRESSIONS; ARBITRARY NUMBER; DECAY RATE; DEVELOPED MODEL; EIGENSTATES; EXCITATION PULSE; GAUSSIANS; GENERALIZED MODELS; OPTICAL METHODS; PHASE RELAXATION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTRUM; RELAXATION CONSTANTS; THERMAL TRANSITIONS;

DECAY (ORGANIC); KINETICS; LIGHT; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SECONDARY EMISSION;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; KINETICS; LASER; LUMINESCENCE; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTON; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR; THEORETICAL MODEL;

KINETICS; LASERS; LUMINESCENCE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM DOTS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTORS;

EID: 84870588181     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.027612     Document Type: Article

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