Multiple peak structure of intersubband absorption in heterostructures with closely spaced levels

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 7776-7779

  Raichev, O E ^a   Vasko, F T ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

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EID: 0001185071     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.60.7776     Document Type: Article

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