Intersubband emission in double-well structures with quantum interference in absorption

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 71, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 3477-3479

  Faist, Jérôme ^a,b   Capasso, Federico ^a   Sirtori, Carlo ^a   Hutchinson, Albert L ^a   West, Ken W ^a   Pfeiffer, L N ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; INFRARED SPECTROMETERS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

ABSORPTION MEASUREMENT; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROMETER; INTERSUBBAND EMISSION;

ELECTROLUMINESCENCE;

EID: 0031337891     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.120364     Document Type: Article

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