Thickness dependence of the tunneling current in the coherent limit of transport

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 22, 2008, Pages

  Heiliger, Christian ^a   Zahn, Peter ^a   Yavorsky, Bogdan Yu ^a   Mertig, Ingrid ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

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EID: 44949193716     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.224407     Document Type: Article

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