1. Semiconductors: A quantum dot in a Fermi sea.
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Greilich, Alex and Gammon, Daniel
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SEMICONDUCTORS , *ELECTRONS , *QUANTUM dots , *QUANTUM electronics , *EXCITON theory - Abstract
The article offers information on the study about the impact of coherent tunnelling to a nearby sea of electrons to the optical spectrum of a single quantum dot. The study notes that when an electron combines with the hole, there is a shake-up of the electron sea that establishes rise to characteristic spectral lineshapes. The study infers that the quantum size effects can be tailored to engineer the functionality of semiconductor quantum-dot systems.
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- 2010
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