Shift currents from symmetry reduction and Coulomb effects in (110)-orientated GaAs/Al0.3 Ga0.7 As quantum wells

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 16, 2007, Pages

  Bieler, Mark ^a   Pierz, Klaus ^a   Siegner, Uwe ^a   Dawson, Philip ^b  

^a PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 35348910348     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.76.161304     Document Type: Article

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