Anomalous quantum confinement of the longitudinal optical phonon mode in PbSe quantum dots

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 88, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Habinshuti, J ^a,b   Kilian, O ^a,c   Cristini Robbe, O ^d   Sashchiuk, A ^e   Addad, A ^f   Turrell, S ^b   Lifshitz, E ^e   Grandidier, B ^a   Wirtz, L ^a,g  

^a INSTITUT D ELECTRONIQUE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DES SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES DE LILLE   (France)

^c Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DES SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES DE LILLE   (France)

^e TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^f UNIV LILLE   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

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EID: 84884867160     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.88.115313     Document Type: Article

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