Intervalence band solitary waves in semiconductor quantum wells

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Biancalana, Fabio ^a   Healy, Sorcha B ^a   Fehse, Robin ^a   O'Reilly, Eoin P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; LIGHT; RADIATION; RESONANCE;

CONTINUUM GENERATION; INTERVALENCE BAND SOLITARY WAVES; PHENOMENOLOGICAL MODEL; TWO-FREQUENCY SOLITONS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 33745674524     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.73.063826     Document Type: Article

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