Single spins in self-assembled quantum dots

Nature Materials

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 483-493

  Warburton, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROSPINNING; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; NANOCRYSTALS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR GROWTH;

ELECTRICAL CONTROL; OPTICAL EXPERIMENTS; PHOTONIC PROPERTIES; PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; SELF ASSEMBLED QUANTUM DOTS; SEMICONDUCTOR HETEROSTRUCTURE; SINGLE QUANTUM DOT; SPINTRONICS APPLICATION;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84878248497     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3585     Document Type: Review

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