X-valley leakage in GaAs-based midinfrared quantum cascade lasers: A Monte Carlo study

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Gao, X ^a   Botez, D ^a   Knezevic, I ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERVALLEY SCATTERING MECHANISMS; MIDINFRARED QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; PARALLEL LEAKAGE CURRENTS; X VALLEY LEAKAGE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; QUANTUM THEORY;

LASERS;

EID: 34047092784     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2711153     Document Type: Article

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