Ultra-small excitonic fine structure splitting in highly symmetric quantum dots on GaAs (001) substrate

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 15, 2013, Pages

  Huo, Y H ^a   Rastelli, A ^a,b   Schmidt, O G ^a  

^a IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTANGLED PHOTONS; FINE-STRUCTURE SPLITTING; GAAS SUBSTRATES; POLARIZATION DIRECTION; PRACTICAL PLATFORMS; QUANTUM DEVICE; RECOMBINATION LINES; ULTRA-SMALL;

ALUMINUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SUBSTRATES;

GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

EID: 84877156701     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4802088     Document Type: Article

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