Electron subband structure and controlled valley splitting in silicon thin-body SOI FETs: Two-band k·p theory and beyond
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Article history: Received 17 March 2008 Received in revised form 28 April 2008 Accepted 13 June 2008 Available online 26 October 2008 The review of this paper was arranged by Dimitri Lederer and Jean-Pierre Colinge
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