The role of potential fluctuations in continuous-wave donor - Acceptor pair luminescence of heavily doped materials

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 75, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1243-1245

  Kuskovsky, I ^a   Li, D ^a   Neumark, G F ^a   Bondarev, V N ^b   Pikhitsa, P V ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b ODESSA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

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EID: 0001676490     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.124655     Document Type: Article

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