Terahertz emission from quantum cascade lasers in the quantum hall regime: Evidence for many body resonances and localization effects

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 23, 2004, Pages

  Scalari, Giacomo ^a   Blaser, Stéphane ^a,d   Faist, Jérôme ^a   Beere, Harvey ^b   Linfield, Edmund ^b   Ritchie, David ^b   Davies, Giles ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d Alpes Lasers SA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCALIZATION EFFECTS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS; QUANTUM HALL EFFECT;

CURRENT DENSITY; CYCLOTRONS; HALL EFFECT; LASERS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SUBSTRATES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 42749102725     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.237403     Document Type: Article

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