Bloch oscillations in the presence of plasmons and phonons

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1084-1087

  Ghosh, Avik W ^a,b   Jönsson, Lars ^a   Wilkins, John W ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRONIC DENSITY OF STATES; ELECTRONS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; PERMITTIVITY; PLASMAS; SEMICONDUCTOR SUPERLATTICES; TEMPERATURE;

BLOCH OSCILLATIONS; BLOCH PLASMON PHONON MODES; PHONON DIPOLE MOMENT; PLASMONS;

DAMPING;

EID: 0342571637     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.1084     Document Type: Article

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