Modeling of electron-electron scattering in Monte Carlo simulation of quantum cascade lasers

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Bonno, Olivier ^a   Thobel, Jean Luc ^a   Dessenne, François ^a  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC DENSITY; MULTIBAND SYSTEMS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS (QCL); WAVE FUNCTIONS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON SCATTERING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCIES; FUNCTIONS; HAMILTONIANS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PHONONS;

QUANTUM WELL LASERS;

EID: 13744258402     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1840100     Document Type: Article

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