ROLE OF THE BAND-STRUCTURE IN DETERMINING THE 3RD-ORDER SUSCEPTIBILITY OF SEMICONDUCTOR SUPERLATTICES

被引:14
作者
SHAW, MJ [1 ]
NINNO, D [1 ]
ADDERLEY, BM [1 ]
JAROS, M [1 ]
机构
[1] NAPLES UNIV,DIPARTIMENTO SCI FIS,I-80125 NAPLES,ITALY
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1992年 / 45卷 / 19期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.45.11031
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T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
We show that both the absolute value and the sharp features in the spectral form of the frequency-dependent third-order susceptibility of semiconductor superlattices (e.g., [8 monolayers (InAs)0.7(GaSb)0.3]/(4 monolayers AlSb)) strongly depend on the shape of the minibands. The significant minibands span a range of energies up to almost-equal-to E(gap) from the fundamental band edges.
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页码:11031 / 11035
页数:5
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