Ballistic electron transport in AlAs quantum wells

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 24, 2004, Pages

  Gunawan, O ^a   Shkolnikov, Y P ^a   De Poortere, E P ^a   Tutuc, E ^a   Shayegan, M ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSPORT; LANDAU LEVELS; QUANTUM HALL; WAVE-VECTORS;

ANISOTROPY; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; FERMI SURFACE; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; SCATTERING; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 37649026693     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.246603     Document Type: Article

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