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Nature Materials 5, 855 - 856 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nmat1768

Quantum dots: Artificial atoms for quantum optics

Rudolf Bratschitsch1 & Alfred Leitenstorfer1

  1. Rudolf Bratschitsch and Alfred Leitenstorfer are in the Department of Physics and the Center for Applied Photonics at the University of Konstanz, PO Box M695, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany.
    e-mail: Rudolf.Bratschitsch@uni-konstanz.de;
    e-mail: Alfred.Leitenstorfer@uni-konstanz.de


Colloidal quantum dots are efficient nanoscopic light emitters with interesting applications from optoelectronics to biomedical imaging. Their polarizability has now been measured directly by probing the electronic response without electrical contacts.

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