Pump-probe spectroscopy of interminiband relaxation and electron cooling in doped superlattices

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 88, Issue 15, 2006, Pages

  Stehr, D ^a   Winnerl, S ^a   Helm, M ^a   Dekorsy, T ^b   Roch, T ^c   Strasser, G ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPING (ADDITIVES); DYNAMICS; ELECTRONS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMOMETERS;

ELECTRON DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; INFRARED FREE-ELECTRON LASER; PICOSECOND THERMOMETER;

SUPERLATTICES;

EID: 33646152733     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2194868     Document Type: Article

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