BAND-EDGE PROPERTIES OF QUASI-ONE-DIMENSIONAL HGTE-CDTE HETEROSTRUCTURES

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MEYER, JR [1 ]
BARTOLI, FJ [1 ]
HOFFMAN, CA [1 ]
RAMMOHAN, LR [1 ]
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[1] WORCESTER POLYTECH INST,WORCESTER,MA 01609
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.64.1963
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O4 [物理学];
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We discuss a number of potential advantages offered by materials with very narrow energy gaps in the study of quasi-one-dimensional physics. Besides the expectation of quite large subband splittings, we predict several new phenomena which have no analog in wide-gap structures, such as the opening of a confinement-induced energy gap in semimetallic structures, a strong decrease of the gap with magnetic field, and ballistic conductance per channel in fractional units of c2 Latin small letter h with stroke. © 1990 The American Physical Society.
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