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Enhancement of quantum effects in semiconductor quantum wells has led to a new generation of electro-optic devices. This enhancement is largely due to the small effective masses of the electrons in these materials and to the possibility to tune the optical resonances by band engineering. The field of application of these devices is mainly the optical computing and data processing (switching,...) as well as smart detectors. These properties should be even more pronounced when quantization will occur in other directions, in quantum wires and quantum boxes. Once technology will be mature, these latter will be real giant atoms exhibiting unprecedented electro-optic properties.
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Rosencher, E. (1993). New optoelectronic devices. In: Ploog, K.H., Tapfer, L. (eds) Physics and Technology of Semiconductor Quantum Devices. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 419. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0034406
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