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Optics of quantum dots and wires. (Artech House semiconductor materials and devices library)

621.3'8152

Cover design by Gary Ragaglia

Garnett W. Bryant is a U.S. government employee at NIST.

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International Standard Book Number: 1-58053-761-8

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To Virginia, Sean, and Eric Bryant and Cynthia Currin for their love and support

About the Editors

Garnett W. Bryant is currently the group leader of the Quantum Processes Group in the Atomic Physics Division of the Physics Laboratory at the National...