Bloch-phonon coupling and tunneling-induced coherent phonon excitation in semiconductor superlattices

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2003, Pages

  Forst M ^a   Kurz, H ^a   Dekorsy, T ^b   Leavitt, R P ^c  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; MEASUREMENT; MOTION; OSCILLATION; PHONON; POLARIZATION; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 0037305662     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.67.085305     Document Type: Article

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