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Carrier-carrier interaction and fast intersubband scattering in wide GaAs quantum wells

Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud, Stefan Haacke
1999
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Wide quantum wells, where the energy spacing between the first two energy levels is lower than the energy of the polar optical phonon, could represent the ideal condition to obtain a population inversion and the production of infrared lasers. On the other hand in these quantum wells the efficiency of carrier-carrier scattering is increasing with the width of the well and can produce a relatively quick relaxation of carriers in the first subband. In this work we present a detailed and systematic joint theoretical and experimental investigation considering different well width and carrier density and we conclude that in most cases the carrier-carrier scattering is sufficiently strong to forbid a significant population inversion.

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Benoît Marie Joseph Deveaud, Stefan Haacke
1999
Book Chapters

Abstract

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/ff93f170-25e7-4b13-8101-e35f7b48aa25

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