Relaxation mechanisms of the photoelectrons in the second miniband of a superlattice structure

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 306-313

  Chen, Chun Chi ^a   Chen, H C ^a   Hsu, Mao Chieh ^a   Hsieh, Wen Hsing ^a   Kuan, Chieh Hsiung ^a   Wang, Shiang Yu ^b   Lee, Chien Ping ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Infrared photodetector; Intersubband; Quantum well infrared photodetector; Superlattice

Indexed keywords

HIGH PASS FILTERS; RADIATION DETECTORS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR SUPERLATTICES;

PHOTOELECTRON TRANSPORT;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 0037320411     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2002.807175     Document Type: Article

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