Rotating filaments in a n-GaAs corbino disk

Acta Technica CSAV (Ceskoslovensk Akademie Ved)

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 623-632

  Eberle, Werner ^a   Margull, Ulrich ^a   Grebler, Jürgen ^a   Hirschinger, Jürgen ^a   Prettl, Wilhelm ^a   Kostial, Helmar ^b   Novák, Vít ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b PAUL DRUDE INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERELEKTRONIK   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Current filament; Impurity breakdown; Photoluminescence; Selforganization

Indexed keywords

IMPURITIES; OSCILLATIONS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE;

CURRENT FILAMENTS; IMPURITY BREAKDOWN; QUENCHED LUMINESCENCE;

SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

EID: 0030635312     PISSN: 00017043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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