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Nanostructures

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When the structural size of functional elements enters the size range of the de Broglie matter wavelength, the electronic and optical properties are dominated by quantum-mechanical effects. The most drastic impact can be seen from the density of states (Fig. 13.1).

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Grundmann, M. (2010). Nanostructures. In: The Physics of Semiconductors. Graduate Texts in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13884-3_13

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