Ultrafast heating and cooling of electron plasmas in GaInAs/AlInAs quantum wells after intersubband excitation

Solid State Communications

Volumn 106, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 425-429

  Lutgen, Stephan ^a   Kaindl, Robert A ^a   Woerner, Michael ^a   Hase, Andreas ^b   Künzel, Harald ^b  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

A. quantum wells; A. semiconductors; D. electron electron interactions; D. electron phonon interactions; E. time resolved optical spectroscopies

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; COOLING; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRONS; FERMI LEVEL; PHONONS; PLASMA DENSITY; PLASMA HEATING; PLASMAS; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; SPECTROSCOPY;

ELECTRON PHONON INTERACTIONS; ELECTRON PLASMAS; ELECTRON-ELECTRON INTERACTIONS; TIME RESOLVED OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 0032065714     PISSN: 00381098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0038-1098(98)00078-7     Document Type: Article

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