Structural and optical properties of high quality zinc-blende/wurtzite GaAs nanowire heterostructures

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 24, 2009, Pages

  Spirkoska, D ^a   Arbiol, J ^b   Gustafsson, A ^c   Conesa Boj, S ^b   Glas, F ^d   Zardo, I ^a   Heigoldt, M ^a   Gass, M H ^e   Bleloch, A L ^e   Estrade, S ^b   Kaniber, M ^a   Rossler, J ^a   Peiro, F ^b   Morante, J R ^b,f   Abstreiter, G ^a   Samuelson, L ^c   Fontcuberta I Morral, A ^a,g  

^a WALTER SCHOTTKY INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^e SUPERSTEM LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^f CATALONIA INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY RESEARCH IREC   (Spain)

^g EPFL   (Switzerland)

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EID: 77954701758     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.245325     Document Type: Article

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