Anharmonic decay of subterahertz coherent acoustic phonons in GaN

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Liu, Tzu Ming ^a   Sun, Shih Ze ^a   Chang, Chieh Feng ^a   Pan, Chang Chi ^b   Chen, Guan Ting ^b   Chyi, Jen Inn ^b   Gusev, Vitalyi ^c   Sun, Chi Kuang ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU MAINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PHONONS; SCATTERING; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ACOUSTIC ATTENUATION; ACOUSTIC PHONONS; ANHARMONIC DECAY; SUBTERAHERTZ RANGE;

GALLIUM NITRIDE;

EID: 33846607386     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2433755     Document Type: Article

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