Current responsivity of semiconductor superlattice THz-photon detectors

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 3643-3654

  Ignatov, Anatoly A ^a,b   Jauho, Antti Pekka ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICS OF MICROSTRUCTURES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BAND STRUCTURE; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PHOTOCURRENTS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS;

CURRENT RESPONSIVITY; EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT MODEL; FINE MATCHING EFFICIENCY; PLASMA-BLOCH OSCILLATIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS;

SEMICONDUCTOR SUPERLATTICES;

EID: 0032607057     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.369728     Document Type: Article

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