A highly transmittive semiconductor base for ballistic electron emission microscopy

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 73, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1218-1220

  Heer, R ^a   Smoliner, J ^a   Strasser, G ^a   Gornik, E ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

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EID: 0001606202     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.122132     Document Type: Article

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