Thermoelectric transport in periodic one-dimensional stacks of InAs/GaAs quantum dots

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Fomin, V M ^a   Kratzer, P ^b  

^a IFW DRESDEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

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EID: 77956712470     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.82.045318     Document Type: Article

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