SUBPICOSECOND REAL-SPACE CHARGE-TRANSFER IN GAAS/ALAS TYPE-II SUPERLATTICES

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DEPAULA, AM [1 ]
MACIEL, AC [1 ]
WEBER, G [1 ]
RYAN, JF [1 ]
DAWSON, P [1 ]
FOXON, CT [1 ]
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[1] PHILIPS RES LABS,REDHILL RH1 5HA,SURREY,ENGLAND
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10.1088/0268-1242/7/3B/028
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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 report time-resolved anti-Stokes Raman scattering measurements of short-period GaAs/AlAs type II superlattices which reveal directly that q approximately O confined and interface optical phonons are emitted by electrons when they transfer from the GAMMA-valley in the GaAs layers to the X(z) valley in the AlAs layers in structures where the GAMMA-X(z) separation is greater than the optical phonon energy. The transfer time is estimated from the risetime of the non-equilibrium phonon population to be congruent-to 1 ps.
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页码:B120 / B123
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