GIANT POPULATION-INVERSION OF HOT-ELECTRONS IN GAAS ALAS TYPE HETEROSTRUCTURES WITH QUANTUM-WELLS/

Authors
ALESHKIN VY ANDRONOV AA
Citation
Vy. Aleshkin et Aa. Andronov, GIANT POPULATION-INVERSION OF HOT-ELECTRONS IN GAAS ALAS TYPE HETEROSTRUCTURES WITH QUANTUM-WELLS/, JETP letters, 68(1), 1998, pp. 78-83
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
JETP letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00213640
Volume
68
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
78 - 83
Database
ISI
SICI code
0021-3640(1998)68:1<78:GPOHIG>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
The heating of electrons in an AlxGa1-xAs/GaAs (x>0.42) heterostructur e in a lateral (directed along the heterointerfaces) electric field is studied. Population inversion on the size-quantization subbands of th e Gamma valley of GaAs and a giant population inversion between the X- valley states of AlxGa1-xAs and Gamma-valley states of GaAs are pre di eted. The possibility of using these inversions for achieving stimulat ed IR emission is discussed. (C) 1998 American Institute of Physics.