Phonon-assisted tunneling through quantum dot stacks

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Gnodtke, C ^a   Kiesslich G ^a   Scholl E ^a   Wacker, A ^b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 33645412117     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.73.115338     Document Type: Article

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