Time resolved studies of intersubband relaxation in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells below the optical phonon energy using a free electron laser

Superlattices and Microstructures

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 17-24

  Murdin, B N ^a   Langerak, C J G M ^a   Helm, M ^b   Kruck, P ^b   Heiss, W ^c   Rosskopf, V ^c   Strasser, G ^c   Gornik, E ^c   Dur M ^d   Goodnick, S M ^d   Lee, S C ^e   Galbraith, I ^e   Pidgeon, C R ^e  

^a FOM INSTITUTE FOR PLASMA PHYSICS RIJNHUIZEN   (Netherlands)

^b JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^d Oregon State University   (United States)

^e HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; ELECTRONS; LIGHT EMISSION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHONONS; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

ACOUSTIC PHONON EMISSION; ELECTRON-ELECTRON SCATTERING; INTERSUBBAND RELAXATION; OPTICAL PHONON ENERGY; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; QUANTUM WELL INFRARED PHOTODETECTORS; TIME RESOLVED PROBE MEASUREMENT; TIME RESOLVED PUMP MEASUREMENT;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 0029734432     PISSN: 07496036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/spmi.1996.0003     Document Type: Article

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