Two-electron linear intersubband light absorption in a biased quantum well

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Dai, J ^a   Raikh, M E ^a   Shahbazyan, T V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTRONS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

ELECTRON-ELECTRON INTERACTIONS; INTERSUBBAND ENERGY; LINEAR OPTICAL RESPONSE;

LIGHT ABSORPTION;

EID: 33144455824     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.066803     Document Type: Article

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