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Potential well
Known as:
Potential Hill
, Quantum confinement
, Quantum confinement effect
A potential well is the region surrounding a local minimum of potential energy. Energy captured in a potential well is unable to convert to another…
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2009
2009
Intrinsic optical gain of ultrathin silicon quantum wells from first-principles calculations
Y. Suwa
,
S. Saito
2009
Corpus ID: 119550585
Optical gains of ultrathin Si(001) quantum wells are calculated from first principles, and found to be positive because of an…
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2001
2001
Quantum confinement VI: nanostructured materials and devices : proceedings of the international symposium
M. Cahay
,
D. Division
2001
Corpus ID: 136707405
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Submitted to ApJ Letters
2000
Corpus ID: 7846993
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
The effects of indium concentration and well-thickness on the mechanisms of radiative recombination in InxGa1−xN quantum wells
N. Shapiro
,
P. Perlin
,
C. Kisielowski
,
Laila S. Mattos
,
J. Yang
,
E. Weber
2000
Corpus ID: 99867071
A correlation of the local indium concentration measured on an atomic scale with luminescence properties of In x Ga 1−x N quantum…
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1999
1999
Growth and study of self-organized Ge quantum wires on Si(111) substrates
G. Jin
,
Yinsheng Tang
,
Jianlin Liu
,
Kang L. Wang
1999
Corpus ID: 122589678
Self-organized Ge quantum wires were grown on regular atomic steps formed along [110] direction on Si(111) substrates by…
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1999
1999
Ge/Si self-assembled quantum dots grown on Si(001) in an industrial high-pressure chemical vapor deposition reactor
C. Hernandez
,
Y. Campidelli
,
+5 authors
S. Sauvage
1999
Corpus ID: 120281372
We report on the structural and optical properties of Ge/Si self-assembled quantum dots epitaxially grown on Si(001). The Ge…
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1997
1997
Calculation of band alignments and quantum confinement effects in zero- and one-dimensional pseudomorphic structures
M. Yang
,
J. Sturm
,
J. Prévost
1997
Corpus ID: 16140089
The strain field distributions and band lineups of zero-dimensional and one-dimensional strained pseudomorphic semiconductor…
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1997
1997
Linearly polarized and time-resolved cathodoluminescence study of strain-induced laterally ordered (InP)2/(GaP)2 quantum wires
D. Rich
,
Y. Tang
,
H. Lin
1997
Corpus ID: 29598039
The optical properties of (InP)2/(GaP)2 bilayer superlattice (BSL) structures have been examined with linearly polarized…
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1994
1994
Characterisation of microporous sol-gel films for optical device applications
E. Yeatman
,
Mino Green
,
E. Dawnay
,
M. Fardad
,
F. Horowitz
1994
Corpus ID: 3436605
This paper describes progress towards a silica-on-silicon integrated optics technology based on sol-gel. In particular, the aim…
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1994
1994
Photoluminescence of chemically vapor deposited Si on silica aerogels
W. Cao
,
A. Hunt
1994
Corpus ID: 56441756
We have prepared in situ porous Si by the decomposition of SiH4 at 500 °C on an aerogel substrate. Electron microscopy studies…
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