Multiband envelope function model for quantum transport in a tunneling diode

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 23, 2005, Pages

  Morandi, Omar ^a   Modugno, Michele ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b INFM   (Italy)

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EID: 28344446350     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.235331     Document Type: Article

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