2-LEVEL AND 3-LEVEL RESONANT MEASUREMENTS OF IMPURITY-BOUND MAGNETOPOLARONS IN MULTIPLE-QUANTUM-WELL STRUCTURES

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作者
CHENG, JP [1 ]
MCCOMBE, BD [1 ]
BROZAK, G [1 ]
机构
[1] NORTHEASTERN UNIV,BOSTON,MA 02115
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1991年 / 43卷 / 11期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.43.9324
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T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
Far-infrared photoconductivity has been used to follow the 1s-2p + transition of shallow donors confined in GaAs/Al(x)Ga(1-x)As multiple-quantum-well structures through resonant regions with GaAs optical phonons by magnetic field tuning up to 23.5 T. Both two-level and three-level measurements show anti-level-crossing behavior with the lower branches far below (approximately 50 cm-1) the resonant energies for the bulk long-wavelength LO phonons, resulting in extremely large, asymmetric interaction gaps. The results strongly suggest that electrons interact with more than one set of phonons, or a phonon band. The electron-interface-phonon interaction provides a plausible explanation for the experimental observations.
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页码:9324 / 9327
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