Resonant tunnelling and fast switching in amorphous-carbon quantum-well structures

Nature Materials

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 19-22

  Bhattacharyya, S ^a   Henley, S J ^a   Mendoza, E ^a   Gomez Rojas, L ^a   Allam, J ^a   Silva, S R P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84988042482     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat1551     Document Type: Article

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