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SUBMITTER: Cockins L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2906850 | biostudies-other | 2010 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20100510 21
Strong confinement of charges in few-electron systems such as in atoms, molecules, and quantum dots leads to a spectrum of discrete energy levels often shared by several degenerate states. Because the electronic structure is key to understanding their chemical properties, methods that probe these energy levels in situ are important. We show how electrostatic force detection using atomic force microscopy reveals the electronic structure of individual and coupled self-assembled quantum dots. An el ...[more]