Nonequilibrium Green's function calculation for four-level scheme terahertz quantum cascade lasers

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 15, 2009, Pages

  Yasuda, H ^a,b   Kubis, T ^c   Vogl, P ^c   Sekine, N ^b   Hosako, I ^b   Hirakawa, K ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c WALTER SCHOTTKY INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVEL SCHEMES; NON-EQUILIBRIUM GREEN'S FUNCTION METHODS; NON-EQUILIBRIUM GREEN'S FUNCTIONS; NUMBER OF ELECTRONS; RESONANT PHONONS; TERAHERTZ; TERAHERTZ QUANTUM-CASCADE LASERS; THERMALLY ACTIVATED;

PHONONS; QUANTUM CASCADE LASERS;

GREEN'S FUNCTION;

EID: 65249086752     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3119312     Document Type: Article

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