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Nature Materials 8, 775 - 776 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nmat2541

Quantum dots: Long life in zero dimensions

Alessandro Tredicucci1

  1. Alessandro Tredicucci is at NEST, CNR-INFM and Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza San Silvestro 12, 56127 Pisa, Italy.
    e-mail: a.tredicucci@sns.it

Electron relaxation time in semiconductor quantum dots, for terahertz transition energies, can be slowed down to the nanosecond range — a very encouraging result for the development of quantum-dot-based quantum cascade lasers.

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