Electronic transport in a three-dimensional network of one-dimensional bismuth quantum wires

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 60, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 16880-16884

  Graf, M J ^b  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 0011534481     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.60.16880     Document Type: Article

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