Ultrafast dynamics of intersubband excitations in a quasi-two-dimensional hole gas

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1122-1125

  Kaindl, Robert A ^a   Wurm, Matthias ^a   Reimann, Klaus ^a   Woerner, Michael ^a   Elsaesser, Thomas ^a   Miesner, Christian ^b   Brunner, Karl ^b   Abstreiter, Gerhard ^b  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b WALTER SCHOTTKY INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRON RESONANCE; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; ENERGY GAP; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; PHONONS; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

CONDUCTION SUBBAND; HOLE PHONON SCATTERING RATE; INTERSUBBAND CARRIER HEATING; INTERSUBBAND SCATTERING; OPTICAL PHONON EMISSION; QUASI TWO DIMENSIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR; RESONANT INTERSUBBAND EXCITATION; SUBBAND STRUCTURE; ULTRAFAST HOLE DYNAMICS; VALENCE SUBBAND;

ELECTRON SCATTERING;

EID: 17744418033     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.1122     Document Type: Article

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