Laterally Modulated 2D Electron System in the Extreme Quantum Limit

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 368021-368024

  Melinte, S ^a   Berciu, Mona ^b   Zhou, Chenggang ^a   Tutuc, E ^a   Papadakis, S J ^a   Harrison, C ^c   De Poortere, E P ^a   Wu, Mingshaw ^c   Chaikin, P M ^c   Shayegan, M ^a   Bhatt, R N ^a   Register, R A ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMERS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; HALL EFFECT; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MASKS; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; POLYSTYRENES; SELF ASSEMBLY; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SUPERLATTICES;

LANDAU LEVELS (LL); QUANTUM HALL EFFECT (QHE); TWO-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRON SYSTEM (2DES);

QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

EID: 10744228490     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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