Voltage-controlled sharp-line electroluminescence in GaAs-AlAs double-barrier resonant-tunneling structures

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 1998, Pages R4242-R4245

  Roberts, G ^a   Finley, J ^a   Skolnick, M ^a   Eaves, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0542443284     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.58.R4242     Document Type: Article

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