INTERFEROMETRIC MEASUREMENT OF ELECTRON-HOLE PAIR RECOMBINATION LIFETIME AS A FUNCTION OF THE INJECTION LEVEL

被引:6
作者
BREGLIO, G
CUTOLO, A
SPIRITO, P
ZENI, L
机构
[1] Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Naples, 80125, Napoli
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10.1109/55.244739
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
We describe a new interferometric technique for the measurement of the recombination lifetime of electron-hole (eh) pairs as a function of their concentration, which can be measured with an error smaller than 10%. In addition, our approach is much more sensitive than the other optical methods described in the literature.
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