Angle dependence of acoustic phonon-assisted tunneling in a weakly coupled superlattice: Evidence for terahertz phonon amplification

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Kini, R N ^a   Kent, A J ^a   Stanton, N M ^a   Henini, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL FILMS; PHONON AMPLIFICATION; PHONON PROPAGATION; PHONON-ASSISTED TUNNELING;

AMPLIFICATION; ELECTRON TUNNELING; LASER PULSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METAL ANALYSIS; PHONONS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; THIN FILMS;

SUPERLATTICES;

EID: 23944448113     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1989435     Document Type: Article

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