Acoustic phonon generation and detection in GaAs/Al 0.3Ga 0.7As quantum wells with picosecond laser pulses

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 2005, Pages

  Matsuda, O ^a   Tachizaki, T ^a   Fukui, T ^a   Baumberg, J J ^b   Wright, O B ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM DERIVATIVE; ARSENIC DERIVATIVE; GALLIUM;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ENERGY; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHASE TRANSITION; PHONON; PHOTON; QUANTUM THEORY; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 20144381990     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.115330     Document Type: Article

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