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Description

Quantum dots have a small, countable number of electrons confined in a small space. Their electrons are confined by having a tiny bit of conducting material surrounded on all sides by an insulating material. If the insulator is strong enough, and the conducting volume is small enough, then the confinement will force the electrons to have discrete (quantized) energy levels. These energy levels can influence the device behavior at a macroscopic scale, showing up, for example, as peaks in the conductance. Because of the quantized energy levels, quantum dots have been called "artificial atoms." Neighboring, weakly-coupled quantum dots have been called "artificial molecules."

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  1. Quantum Dot Lab Learning Materials

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    By completing the Quantum Dot Lab, users will be able to a) understand the 3D confinement of carriers in a quantum dot, b) describe effects of geometry of a quantum dot on the energy states of...

    https://nanohub.org/wiki/QDotLab

  2. NEMO3D

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    For now this page is a rather empty place holder for references on nanoHUB to the NEMO3D tool. There is a more complete NEMO3D web page that is maintained by the Nanoelectronic Modeling Group of...

    https://nanohub.org/wiki/NEMO3D