Self-consistent rate equations of self-assembly quantum wire lasers

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1398-1409

  Dery, Hanan ^a   Eisenstein, Gadi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER MOBILITY; CHARGE CARRIERS; LIGHT MODULATION; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

CARRIER CAPTURE; NONHOMOGENOUS MEDIA; QUANTUM WIRE LASERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 5144227171     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2004.834557     Document Type: Article

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