Long-range spatial correlations in the exciton energy distribution in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 15, 2002, Pages 157402/1-157402/4

  Yayon, Y ^a   Esser, A ^b   Rappaport, M ^a   Umansky, V ^a   Shtrikman, H ^a   Bar Joseph, I ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; EXCITONS; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; OHMIC CONTACTS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

ALUMINUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; EXCITON ENERGY DISTRIBUTION; SCANNING NEAR FIELD OPTICAL MICROSCOPY;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 0037037909     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.157402     Document Type: Article

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