Midinfrared emission from coupled Wannier-Stark ladders in semiconductor superlattices

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 1998, Pages R6811-R6814

  Scamarcio, Gaetano ^a   Capasso, Federico ^a   Hutchinson, Albert L ^a   Sivco, Deborah L ^a   Cho, Alfred Y ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

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EID: 0001200476     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.57.R6811     Document Type: Article

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