Successes and failures of the k⋅p method: A direct assessment for GaAs/AlAs quantum structures

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 7949-7963

  Wood, D ^a   Zunger, Alex ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

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EID: 0000270836     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.53.7949     Document Type: Article

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