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Transport in Electric and Magnetic Lateral Superlattices

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In this contribution a short outline of different types of lateral superlattices is given and the predominant phenomena, in particular due to the commensurability between the cyclotron radius R c and the period a, are briefly reviewed.

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Weiss, D., Lütjering, G., Ye, P.D., Albrecht, C. (1996). Transport in Electric and Magnetic Lateral Superlattices. In: Kramer, B. (eds) Quantum Transport in Semiconductor Submicron Structures. NATO ASI Series, vol 326. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1760-6_8

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