Capture and escape in quantum wells as scattering events in Monte Carlo simulation

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 19-21

  Abou Khalil, Michel ^a   Goano, Michele ^a   Champagne, Alain ^a   Maciejko, Roman ^a,b  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b IEEE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS;

GRADED INDEX SEPARATE CONFINEMENT HETEROSTRUCTURE;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 0029757839     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.475764     Document Type: Article

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