Current flow and energy dissipation in low-dimensional semiconductor superlattices

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1-3

  Fowler, D ^a   Patan A ^a   Ignatov, A ^a,e   Eaves, L ^a   Henini, M ^a   Mori, N ^b   Maude, D K ^c   Airey, R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c GRENOBLE HIGH MAGNETIC FIELD LABORATORY   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICS OF MICROSTRUCTURES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRONS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS;

ARTIFICIAL NANOWIRES; CURRENT FLOW; LOW-DIMENSIONAL CONDUCTORS; QUASI-ZERO-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRONIC STATES;

SEMICONDUCTOR SUPERLATTICES;

EID: 31944439681     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2171800     Document Type: Article

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