OBSERVATION OF A BLOCH-GRUNEISEN REGIME IN 2-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRON-TRANSPORT

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作者
STORMER, HL
PFEIFFER, LN
BALDWIN, KW
WEST, KW
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[1] ATandT Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1990年 / 41卷 / 02期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.41.1278
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T [工业技术];
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We have observed a rapid decrease in the rate by which two-dimensional electrons in very high-mobility (107 cm2/V sec) GaAs-AlxGa1-xAs heterostructures are scattered by acoustic phonons as the temperature approaches T=0. This precipitous drop in scattering rate is caused by strong phase-space restrictions for electron-phonon scattering. The characteristic temperature for this transition is not the Debye temperature of the GaAs host material, but the temperature at which phonons of twice the Fermi wave vector cease to be thermally excited. © 1990 The American Physical Society.
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