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Advances in Condensed Matter Physics
Volume 2011, Article ID 727958, 22 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/727958
Review Article

Experimental Progress towards Probing the Ground State of an Electron-Hole Bilayer by Low-Temperature Transport

K. Das Gupta,1 A. F. Croxall,1 J. Waldie,1 C. A. Nicoll,1 H. E. Beere,1 I. Farrer,1 D. A. Ritchie,1 and M. Pepper1,2

1Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, J.J. Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK
2Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College, London WC1E7JE, UK

Received 27 May 2010; Accepted 27 October 2010

Academic Editor: Milica Milovanovic

Copyright © 2011 K. Das Gupta et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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