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Comprehensive Characterization of Extended Defects in Semiconductor Materials by a Scanning Electron Microscope
Published on: May 28, 2016
Comment on "Charged impurity-scattering-limited low-temperature resistivity of low-density silicon inversion layers"
1Centre d'Elaboration de Materiaux et d'Etudes Structurales 29 Rue Jeanne Marvig, 31055 Toulouse, France.
Physical Review Letters
|October 13, 2000
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