Band-Mixing Effects and Excitonic Optical Properties in GaAs Quantum Wire Structures—Comparison with the Quantum Wells

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 1988, Pages 1778-1790

  Suemune, Ikuo ^a   Coldren, Larry A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL PROPERTIES; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS -- CHARGE CARRIERS;

ALUMINUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; BAND-MIXING EFFECTS; EXCITONIC OPTICAL PROPERTIES; QUANTUM WELLS; QUANTUM WIRE STRUCTURES;

SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

EID: 0024056946     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: 15581713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.7107     Document Type: Article

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