Cyclotron resonance in HgTe/CdTe-based heterostructures in high magnetic fields

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-7

  Zholudev, Maxim S ^a   Ikonnikov, Anton V ^a   Teppe, Frederic ^b   Orlita, Milan ^c   Maremyanin, Kirill V ^a   Spirin, Kirill E ^a   Gavrilenko, Vladimir I ^a   Knap, Wojciech ^b   Dvoretskiy, Sergey A ^d   Mihailov, Nikolay N ^d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICS OF MICROSTRUCTURES   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^c GRENOBLE HIGH MAGNETIC FIELD LABORATORY   (France)

^d INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Cyclotron resonance; Far IR magnetospectroscopy; HgTe quantum wells; HgTe CdTe heterostructures

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; CYCLOTRON RESONANCE; CYCLOTRONS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; RESONANCE;

HGTE/CDTE; HIGH MAGNETIC FIELDS; INTER-BAND TRANSITION; MAGNETO-ABSORPTION; MAGNETOSPECTROSCOPY; QUANTIZING MAGNETIC FIELD; VALENCE BAND OFFSETS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 84875350617     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-7-534     Document Type: Article

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