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Ebrahim Najafi1, Timothy D Scarborough1, Jau Tang2

  • 1Physical Biology Center for Ultrafast Science and Technology, Arthur Amos Noyes Laboratory of Chemical Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|January 10, 2015
PubMed
まとめ

シリコンのp-n交差点における電荷キャリアダイナミクスのイメージングは,予期せぬ行動を明らかにします. キャリア分離は枯渇層を超えて広がり,弾道的運動と局所的密度をナノ秒で示し,現在のモデルに挑戦しています.

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