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Nature Materials 8, 8 - 9 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nmat2349
Quantum Dots: Squeeze or stretch?
Jacek Kossut1
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Jacek Kossut is in the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw PL-02668, Poland.
e-mail: kossut@ifpan.edu.pl
Abstract
In semiconductor quantum dots, the electronic wave functions are squeezed into small areas. Stretching them in a controllable yet simple way profoundly affects their properties and can give them characteristics important for practical applications.
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