Chapter 2 Band Gaps and Light Emission in Si/SiGe Atomic Layer Structures

Semiconductors and Semimetals

Volumn 49, Issue C, 1997, Pages 37-76

  Abstreiter, Gerhard ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP;

ATOMIC LAYER; SI/SIGE;

CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE;

EID: 67349285423     PISSN: 00808784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0080-8784(08)62500-4     Document Type: Article

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