Dimensional crossover and metal-insulator transition in quasi-two-dimensional disordered conductors

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 56, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 9377-9385

  Dupuis, N ^a  

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EID: 0001031634     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.56.9377     Document Type: Article

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