Tunneling and Nonhyperbolicity in Quantum Dots

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 4-

  de Moura, Alessandro P S ^a   Lai, Ying Cheng ^a,b   Akis, Richard ^b   Bird, Jonathan P ^b   Ferry, David K ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

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EID: 84864875312     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.236804     Document Type: Article

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