Using acoustic waves to induce high-frequency current oscillations in superlattices

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 23, 2010, Pages

  Greenaway, M T ^a   Balanov, A G ^a,b   Fowler, D ^a   Kent, A J ^a   Fromhold, T M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 77956300926     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.235313     Document Type: Article

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