Time-resolved photocurrent spectroscopy of the evolution of the electric field in optically excited superlattices and the prospects for Bloch gain

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1-3

  Lisauskas, Alvydas ^a   Blöser, Claudia ^a   Sachs, Robert ^a   Roskos, Hartmut G ^a   Juozapavičius, Aušrius ^b   Valušis, Gintaras ^b   Köhler, Klaus ^c  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CENTER FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Lithuania)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SOLID STATE PHYSICS IAF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRON ABSORPTION; ELECTRON EMISSION; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; PHOTOCURRENTS; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

BLOCH GAIN; OPTICAL EXCITATION; TIME-RESOLVED PHOTOCURRENT SPECTROSCOPY; WANNIER-STARK TRANSITIONS;

SEMICONDUCTOR SUPERLATTICES;

EID: 17944364803     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1867552     Document Type: Article

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