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Preface v | |
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Mbe Growth and Characterization of Long Wavelength Dilute Nitride Iiiv Alloys | |
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Introduction | |
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MBE Growth of Dilute IIIV Nitrides | |
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Dilute Nitride Characterization | |
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Energy Band and Carrier Transport Properties | |
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Annealing and NIn Nearest Neighbor Effects | |
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Summary Acknowledgements | |
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Epitaxial Growth of Dilute Nitrides By Metal-Organic Vapour Phase Epitaxy | |
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Introduction | |
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Epitaxial Growth of GaInAsN-based Structures | |
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Long Wavelength GaAs-based Laser Performances | |
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Conclusion | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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The Chemical Beam Epitaxy of Dilute Nitride Alloy Semiconductors | |
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Introduction to Dilute Nitride Semiconductors | |
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The Chemical Beam Epitaxial/Metalorganic Molecular Beam Epitaxial (CBE/MOMBE) Growth Process | |
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CBE of Dilute Nitride Semiconductors | |
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Fundamental Studies of GaNx As (12 x ) Band Structure | |
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The Compositions and Properties of Dilute Nitrides Grown by CBE | |
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CBE-grown Dilute Nitride Devices | |
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The Potential for Production CBE of Dilute Nitrides | |
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Conclusions | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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Mombe Growth and Characterization Of Iiiv-N Compounds and Application to Inas Quantum Dots | |
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Introduction | |
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Mombe Growth and Characterization of GaAsN | |
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Relation of In and N Incorporations in the Growth of GaInNAs | |
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Growth and Characterization of GaAsNSe New Alloy | |
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Application of GaAsN to InAs Quantum Dots | |
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Summary | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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Recent Progress in Dilute Nitride Quantum Dots | |
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Self-organized Quantum Dots | |
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Dilute Nitride Quantum Dots | |
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Recent Experimental Progress in GaInNAS QDS | |
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Other Kinds of Dilute Nitride QDs | |
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Summary and Future Challenges in Dilute Nitride QDs: Acknowledgements: References | |
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Physics of Isoelectronic Dopants in Gaas | |
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Nitrogen Isoelectronic Impurities | |
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The Failure of the Virtual Crystal Approximation | |
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Prevalent Theoretical Models on Dilute Nitrides | |
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Electroreflectance Study of GaAsN | |
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Resonant Raman Scattering Study of Conduction Band States | |
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Compatibility with other Experimental Results | |
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A Complementary Alloy: GaAsBi | |
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Summary | |
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Conclusion | |
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Measurement of Carrier Localization Degree, Electron Effective Mass, And Exciton Size in In x Ga1 2 x As 1 2 y N y Alloys | |
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Introduction | |
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Experimental | |
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Single Carrier Localization in In x Ga1 2 x As 1 2 y N y | |
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Measurement of the Electron Effective Mass and Exciton Wave function Size | |
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Conclusions | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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Probing the Unusual Band Structure of Dilute Ga(Asn)Quantum Wells By Magneto-Tunnelling Spectroscopy and Other Techniques | |
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Introduction | |
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Resonant Tunnelling Diodes Based on Dilute Nitrides | |
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Magneto-Tunnelling Spectroscopy to Probe the Conduction Band Structure of Dilute Nitrides | |
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Electronic Properties: From the Very Dilute Regime ( , 0.1%) to the Dilute Regime | |
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Conduction in Dilute Nitrides and Future Prospects | |
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Summary and Conclusions | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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