Direct comparison between potential landscape and local density of states in a disordered two-dimensional electron system

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 13, 2002, Pages 1368061-1368064

  Morgenstern, M ^a   Klijn, J ^a   Meyer, Chr ^a   Getzlaff, M ^a   Adelung, R ^b   Romer R A ^c   Rossnagel, K ^b   Kipp, L ^b   Skibowski, M ^b   Wiesendanger, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; ELECTROSTATICS; FERMI LEVEL; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HALL EFFECT; KINETIC ENERGY; OSCILLATIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

LOCAL DENSITY OF STATES (LDOS);

CARRIER CONCENTRATION;

EID: 0037163818     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.89.136806     Document Type: Article

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