Confinement Effects On The Scattering Of Electrons By Polar Optical Phonons In Semiconductor Quantum Wells

Kai Shum; R. R. Alfano

doi:10.1117/12.940865

3 August 1987 Confinement Effects On The Scattering Of Electrons By Polar Optical Phonons In Semiconductor Quantum Wells

Kai Shum, R. R. Alfano

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Proceedings Volume 0793, Ultrafast Laser Probe Phenomena in Bulk and Microstructure Semiconductors; (1987) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.940865
Event: Advances in Semiconductors and Semiconductor Structures, 1987, Bay Point, FL, United States

Abstract

The non-commutation relationship between the Hamiltonian of the system and the electron momentum operator in the confinement z-direction was taken into account using random variables in the calculation of electron scattering by polar optical phonons in quantum wells. The rate at the onset of phonon emission is found to be 3 times smaller than previously reported. Furthermore, this rate becomes an increasing function of initial electron energy instead of a decreasing function.

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Kai Shum and R. R. Alfano "Confinement Effects On The Scattering Of Electrons By Polar Optical Phonons In Semiconductor Quantum Wells", Proc. SPIE 0793, Ultrafast Laser Probe Phenomena in Bulk and Microstructure Semiconductors, (3 August 1987); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.940865

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