Electronic and nuclear spin in the optical spectra of semiconductor quantum dots

Quantum Coherence Correlation and Decoherence in Semiconductor Nanostructures

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 207-280

  Gammon, D ^a   Efros, Al L ^a   Tischler, J G ^a   Bracker, A S ^a   Korenev, V L ^b   Merkulov, I A ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; EXCITONS; NANOCRYSTALS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; POLARIZATION; SPIN DYNAMICS; SPIN FLUCTUATIONS; SPIN POLARIZATION;

EXCITON POLARIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; HYPERFINE INTERACTIONS; NUCLEAR-SPIN POLARIZATION; OPTICAL SELECTION RULES; OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY; POLARIZATION STATE; ZEEMAN INTERACTIONS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84902571297     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012682225-0/50007-9     Document Type: Chapter

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