Coupled Bloch-phonon oscillations in semiconductor superlattices

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1080-1083

  Dekorsy, T ^a   Bartels, A ^a   Kurz, H ^a   Kohler K ^b   Hey, R ^b   Ploog, K ^c  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SOLID STATE PHYSICS IAF   (Germany)

^c PAUL DRUDE INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERELEKTRONIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRONS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LATTICE VIBRATIONS; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SOLID STATE LASERS;

COUPLED BLOCH PHONON OSCILLATION; FEMTOSECOND TIME RESOLVED OPTICAL PUMP; OPTICAL PHONON ENERGY;

SEMICONDUCTOR SUPERLATTICES;

EID: 0034226845     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.1080     Document Type: Article

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