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Spectroscopy of transverse-quantization levels in two-dimensional point contacts in a transverse-focusing geometry

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It is shown that the focusing signal in a two-dimensional electron gas contains features corresponding to quantization levels of the transverse motion of an electron in the emitter.

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Pis’ma Zh. Éksp. Teor. Fiz. 63, No. 8, 604–607 (25 April 1996)

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Moskalets, M.V. Spectroscopy of transverse-quantization levels in two-dimensional point contacts in a transverse-focusing geometry. Jetp Lett. 63, 639–643 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.567080

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