High-Field Transport in Semiconductor Superlattices

• Main Author: Leo, Karl (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2003.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
• Series: Springer Tracts in Modern Physics, 187
• Subjects: Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Condensed matter.; Optics.; Electrodynamics.; Lasers.; Photonics.; Quantum optics.; Atoms.; Physics.; Optical and Electronic Materials.; Condensed Matter Physics.; Classical Electrodynamics.; Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices.; Quantum Optics.; Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics.

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