Two-photon photocurrent spectroscopy of electron intersubband relaxation and dephasing in quantum wells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 19, 2007, Pages

  Schneider, Harald ^a,b   Maier, Thomas ^b   Walther, Martin ^b   Liu, H C ^c  

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

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SOLID STATE PHYSICS IAF   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; DOPING (ADDITIVES); LASER EXCITATION; PHOTOCURRENTS; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

DEPHASING TIMES; ELECTRON INTERSUBBAND RELAXATION; PHOTOCURRENT SPECTROSCOPY; RESONANTLY ENHANCED NONLINEAR ABSORPTION;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 36048964529     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2806963     Document Type: Article

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