A. Baldus, A. Bett, U. Blieske, T. Duong, F. Lutz, C. Schetter, W. Wettling, O. Sulima
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Abstract
The liquid-phase epitaxy etchback regrowth (LPE-ER) technique was used to grow AlGaAs/GaAs heteroface and AlGaAs/Al/sub y/Ga/sub 1-y/As(0.1