Terahertz spectroscopy of shift currents resulting from asymmetric (110)-oriented GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 15, 2009, Pages

  Priyadarshi, Shekhar ^a   Leidinger, Markus ^a   Pierz, Klaus ^a   Racu, Ana M ^a   Siegner, Uwe ^a   Bieler, Mark ^a   Dawson, Philip ^b  

^a PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC STRUCTURES; FS LASER PULSE; GAAS QUANTUM WELLS; GAAS/ALGAAS QUANTUM WELL; OUT-OF-PLANE; QUANTUM WELL STRUCTURES; RIGHT AND LEFT; TERAHERTZ RADIATION; TERAHERTZ SPECTROSCOPY;

CRYSTAL GROWTH; LASER PULSES; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; MOLECULAR BEAMS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; QUANTUM WELL LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; TENSORS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 70350054899     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3249611     Document Type: Article

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