Dynamically controlling the emission of single excitons in photonic crystal cavities

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Pagliano, Francesco ^a   Cho, Yongjin ^a   Xia, Tian ^a   Van Otten, Frank ^a   Johne, Robert ^a,b   Fiore, Andrea ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM DOT;

ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELECTRON; REAL TIME; TIMESCALE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; DIODE; DIRECT CURRENT; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRON BEAM; EXCITON; FIELD EMISSION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PHOTON; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL DIODE; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SIMULATION; SOLID STATE; STEADY STATE; WAVEFORM;

EID: 84923358287     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6786     Document Type: Article

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