Inelastic quantum transport in superlattices: Success and failure of the boltzmann equation

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 836-839

  Wacker, Andreas ^a   Jauho, Antti Pekka ^b   Rott, Stephan ^c   Markus, Alexander ^c   Binder, Peter ^c   Döhler, Gottfried H ^c  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

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EID: 0001442411     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.836     Document Type: Article

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