Semiconductor Nanostructures

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bimberg, Dieter (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: NanoScience and Technology,
• Subjects: Materials science.; Optics.; Optoelectronics.; Plasmons (Physics).; Electronics.; Microelectronics.; Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Nanotechnology.; Materials > Surfaces.; Thin films.; Materials Science.; Optical and Electronic Materials.; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films.; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices.; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation.

Reducing the size of a coherently grown semiconductor cluster in all three directions of space to a value below the de Broglie wavelength of a charge carrier leads to complete quantization of the energy levels, density of states, etc. Such "quantum dots" are more similar to giant atoms in...