Instability of plasma vibrations in a wide parabolic GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well caused by plasmon-assisted tunnelling. A possible mechanism for generation and amplification of far-infrared radiation

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 8, Issue 49, 1996, Pages 10533-10544

  Talyanskii, V I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 0141481604     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/8/49/040     Document Type: Article

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