Can laser light cool semiconductors?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 24, 2004, Pages

  Sheik Bahae, Mansoor ^a   Epstein, Richard I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; COOLING; FLUORESCENCE; FUNCTIONS; GROUND STATE; HEATING; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; PLASMA THEORY; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

BOLTZMANN STATISTICS; FERMI-DIRAC STATISTICS; LASER COOLING; VIBRATIONAL ENERGY;

LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 3242725239     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.247403     Document Type: Article

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