Elastic laser light scattering by GaAs surfaces

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 2666-2676

  Sterligov, Valeriy A ^a   Subbota, Yuri V ^a   Shirshov, Yuri M ^a   Pochekaylova, Lidia P ^a   Venger, Eugene F ^a   Konakova, Raisa V ^a   Ilyin, Igor Yu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

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EID: 0001716354     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.002666     Document Type: Article

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