Bottleneck effects in the relaxation and photoluminescence of microcavity polaritons

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 7554-7563

  Tassone, F ^a   Piermarocchi, C ^b   Savona, V ^b   Quattropani, A ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

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EID: 0000715186     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.56.7554     Document Type: Article

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