Electrorefraction associated with Wannier-Stark localization in strongly coupled three-quantum-well structures

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 702-707

  Bhatnagar, A ^b,c   Allsopp, D W E ^a,b,d   Chen, X ^b,e   Earnshaw, M P ^a,f   Batty, W ^g  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c SAMEER Centre for Electromagnetics India   (India)

^d University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^f NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; EXCITONS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES;

COUPLED QUANTUM WELLS; ELECTROABSORPTION; ELECTROREFRACTION; HEAVY HOLE LOCALIZATION; STARK LADDERS; WANNIER-STARK EFFECT;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 0033705995     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.845727     Document Type: Article

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