Exciton front propagation in photoexcited GaAs quantum wells

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Yang, Sen ^a   Butov, L V ^a   Levitov, L S ^b   Simons, B D ^c   Gossard, A C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d University of California   (United States)

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EID: 77955011805     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.115320     Document Type: Article

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