Optical phonon sidebands of electronic intersubband absorption in strongly polar semiconductor heterostructures

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Wang, Z ^a   Reimann, K ^a   Woerner, M ^a   Elsaesser, T ^a   Hofstetter, D ^b   Hwang, J ^c   Schaff, W J ^c   Eastman, L F ^c  

^a MAX BORN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^c Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON-PHONON COUPLINGS; ELECTRONIC TRANSITIONS; OPTICAL PHONON PROGRESSION; OPTICAL REFLECTIVITY;

ELECTRON MOBILITY; ELECTRONS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; INTEGRATION; PHONONS; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

LIGHT ABSORPTION;

EID: 18144400038     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.037403     Document Type: Article

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