Subthreshold carrier-LO phonon dynamics in semiconductors with intermediate polaron coupling: A purely quantum kinetic relaxation channel

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 20, 2001, Pages 4684-4687

  Betz, M ^a   Goger G ^a   Laubereau, A ^a   Gartner, P ^b,c   Banyai L ^b   Haug, H ^b   Ortner, K ^d   Becker, C R ^d   Leitenstorfer, A ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS PHYSICS   (Romania)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHONONS; POLARONS; QUANTUM THEORY; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

PHONON DYNAMICS; QUANTUM KINETICS;

SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

EID: 0035858477     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.4684     Document Type: Article

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