Energy relaxation by hot electrons in n-GaN epilayers

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 973-979

  Stanton, N M ^a   Kent, A J ^a   Akimov, A V ^a   Hawker, P ^a   Cheng, T S ^a   Foxon, C T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0000443509     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1334642     Document Type: Article

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