Laser cooling of a semiconductor by 40 kelvin

Nature

Volumn 493, Issue 7433, 2013, Pages 504-508

  Zhang, Jun ^a   Li, Dehui ^a   Chen, Renjie ^a   Xiong, Qihua ^a,b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM SULFIDE; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; LANTHANIDE; NANORIBBON; YTTERBIUM;

COOLING; DOPPLER EFFECT; GLASS; IRRADIATION; LUMINESCENCE; QUANTUM MECHANICS; STOKES FORMULA; VIBRATION;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; COOLING; DESTRUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FREEZING; GAS; IRRADIATION; LASER COOLING; LOW TEMPERATURE; LUMINESCENCE; PHONON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR; SOLID STATE; THERMOMETRY; VIBRATION;

EID: 84872980907     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11721     Document Type: Article

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