Simulation of Photocurrents of Terahertz Quantum-Well Photodetectors
State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050
Received Date:
January 27, 2008
Published Date:
April 30, 2008
Abstract
We theoretically simulate the influence of the scattering processes of the electrons in the continuum states on the shapes of the photocurrent spectra of THz quantum well photodetectors. The width of the photocurrent peak
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XIONG Feng, GUO Xu-Guang, CAO Jun-Cheng. Simulation of Photocurrents of Terahertz Quantum-Well Photodetectors[J]. Chin. Phys. Lett. , 2008, 25(5): 1895-1897.
XIONG Feng, GUO Xu-Guang, CAO Jun-Cheng. Simulation of Photocurrents of Terahertz Quantum-Well Photodetectors[J]. Chin. Phys. Lett. , 2008, 25(5): 1895-1897.
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