Optically programmable excitonic traps

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Alloing, Mathieu ^a   Lemaître, Aristide ^b   Galopin, Elisabeth ^b   Dubin, François ^a  

^a ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EQUIPMENT; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; MICROMANIPULATION; OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRONS; LIGHT; MICROMANIPULATION; OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

EID: 84876565684     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01578     Document Type: Article

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