Bipolar quantum-Transport modeling of carrier injection into a SCH-Quantum-Well laser

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 865-872

  Tsuchiya, Hideaki ^a,b,c,g   Miyoshi, Tanroku ^a,c,d,e,f,g  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY

^c JAPAN SOCIETY OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^g IEEE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL DEVICES; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM COMPOUNDS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CARRIER INJECTION; CARRIER TRANSPORT EFFECTS; POISSON EQUATION; QUANTUM LIOUVILLE EQUATION; QUANTUM MECHANICAL EFFECTS; SCHRODINGER EQUATION; WIGNER FUNCTION;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 0030151962     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.493012     Document Type: Article

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