Confinement of polar optical phonons in quasi-one-dimensional Wurtzite GaN-based quantum well wires: Propagating and half-space phonon modes

Central European Journal of Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 324-341

  Zhang, Li ^a,b   Shi, Jun Jie ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Guangzhou Panyu Polytechnic   (China)

Author keywords

GaN based heterostructure; Propagating and half space optical phonon modes; Wurtzite quantum well wire

Indexed keywords

EID: 34347403533     PISSN: 18951082     EISSN: 16443608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11534-007-0017-6     Document Type: Article

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