Electronic states in semiconductor nanostructures and upscaling to semi-classical models

Analysis, Modeling and Simulation of Multiscale Problems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 365-394

  Koprucki, Thomas ^a   Kaiser, Hans Christoph ^a   Fuhrmann, Jürgen ^a  

^a WEIERSTRASS INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ANALYSIS AND STOCHASTICS   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1007/3-540-35657-6_13     Document Type: Chapter

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