Carrier multiplication in graphene under Landau quantization

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Wendler, Florian ^a   Knorr, Andreas ^a   Malic, Ermin ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE; GRAPHITE;

CARBON; ELECTRON; MAGNETIC FIELD; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DENSITY; LANDAU QUANTIZATION; MAGNETIC FIELD; MICROSCOPY; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; TEMPERATURE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRICITY; MAGNETISM;

ELECTRICITY; GRAPHITE; MAGNETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84898782169     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4703     Document Type: Article

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