Rectification in Mesoscopic Systems with Broken Symmetry: Quasiclassical Ballistic Versus Classical Transport

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 568061-568064

  De Haan, S ^a   Lorke, A ^b   Kotthaus, J P ^a   Wegscheider, W ^c   Bichler, M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^d WALTER SCHOTTKY INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; ELECTRON GAS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LEAKAGE CURRENTS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

BALLISTIC RECTIFICATION; MESOSCOPIC SYSTEMS;

SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

EID: 1642395117     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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