MICROSCOPIC ORIGIN OF OPTICAL NONLINEARITIES ASSOCIATED WITH EXCITATIONS BETWEEN VALENCE MINIBANDS IN P-TYPE GAAS-ALAS AND SI-SI1-XGEX HETEROSTRUCTURES

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作者
SHAW, MJ
WONG, KB
JAROS, M
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[1] Department of Physics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1993年 / 48卷 / 03期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.48.2001
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T [工业技术];
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摘要
We have carried out full-scale semi-empirical relativistic pseudopotential calculations of the frequency dependence spanning the midinfrared to far infrared range of frequencies-of chi(2) (-2omega;omega,omega) associated with excitations between valence minibands in p-type GaAs-AlAs and Si-SiGe heterostructures. We find that the spectrum is dominated by excitations lying further from the center of the Brillouin zone and depends on states lying above the semiclassical barrier.
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