Observation of a large dc Kerr effect in the intervalence subband of Si1-xGex/Si multiple quantum wells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 69, Issue 21, 1996, Pages 3164-3166

  Zhang, Xinhui ^a   Chen, Zhenghao ^a   Cui, Dafu ^a   Yang, Guozhen ^a   Wang, Ruizhong ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; BAND STRUCTURE; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OPTICAL KERR EFFECT; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS;

ELECTROABSORPTION; INCIDENT ANGLE; INTERVALENCE SUBBAND TRANSITIONS; KRAMERS-KRONIG RELATIONS; SILICON GERMANIDE; STARK SHIFT;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 0030285709     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.116816     Document Type: Article

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