A paper by Specially Appointed Professor Yasuhiko Arakawa and Professor Emeritus Hiroyuki Sakaki, originally published in Applied Physics Letters in 1982 and proposing a quantum dot laser, has been ranked 6th in the APL Classic Papers with a cumulative citation count of 2784 at the end of 2018, according to AIP, the publisher of APL. APL Classic Papers are selected by APL editors to showcase groundbreaking papers with more than 1000 citations that have an impact on the field.
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