OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY OF A 2-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRON-GAS NEAR THE METAL-INSULATOR-TRANSITION

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FINKELSTEIN, G
SHTRIKMAN, H
BARJOSEPH, I
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[1] Department of Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.976
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O4 [物理学];
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We report on optical measurements of a two-dimensional electron gas near the metal-insulator transition. We observe the appearance of excitons and negatively charged excitons, X-, at the onset of the transition. The fact that these excitons appear at a relatively large average electron density shows that transition is induced by localization of single electrons in the electrostatic potential fluctuations of the remote ionized donors. © 1995 The American Physical Society.
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