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Original Articles

Low-dimensional systems: quantum size effects and electronic properties of semiconductor microcrystallites (zero-dimensional systems) and some quasi-two-dimensional systems

Pages 173-262 | Received 05 Jan 1993, Published online: 14 Aug 2006

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Appendices

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