Importance of electron-impurity scattering for electron transport in terahertz quantum-cascade lasers

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 645-647

  Callebaut, Hans ^a   Kumar, Sushil ^a   Williams, Benjamin S ^a   Hu, Qing ^a   Reno, John L ^b  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON-IMPURITY SCATTERING; INTERSUBBAND TRANSPORT DYNAMICS; QUANTUM-CASCADE LASERS (QCL); WAVEFUNCTION LOCALIZATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTROLUMINESCENCE; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; HAMILTONIANS; IMPURITIES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHONONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

LASERS;

EID: 1242264285     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1644337     Document Type: Article

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