Biexcitonic binding energies in the transition regime from three- to two-dimensional semiconductors

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 56, Issue 16, 1997, Pages R10028-R10031

  Euteneuer, A ^a   Mobius J ^a   Rettig, R ^a   Mayer, E ^a   Hofmann, M ^a   Stolz, W ^a   Gobel E ^a   Ruhle W ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

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EID: 0000888982     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.56.R10028     Document Type: Article

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