Impact ionization in InSb probed by terahertz pump—terahertz probe spectroscopy
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Hoffmann, Matthias C.
Hebling, Janos
Hwang, Harold Young
Yeh, Ka-Lo
Nelson, Keith Adam
Date Issued
April 2009
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Physical Review B
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American Physical Society
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Hoffmann, Matthias C. et al. “Impact ionization in InSb probed by terahertz pump terahertz probe spectroscopy.” Physical Review B 79.16 (2009): 161201. © 2009 The American Physical Society
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Abstract
Picosecond carrier dynamics in indium antimonide (InSb) following excitation by below band gap broadband far-infrared radiation was investigated at 200 and 80 K. Using a THz-pump/THz-probe scheme with pump THz fields of 100 kV/cm and an intensity of 100 MW/cm[superscript 2], we observed carrier heating and impact ionization dynamics. The number of carriers produced exceeds 10[superscript 16] cm[superscript −3], corresponding to a change in carrier density ΔN/N of 700% at 80 K. The onset of a well-defined absorption peak at 1.2 THz is an indication of changes in longitudinal optical (LO) and longitudinal acoustic (LA) phonon populations due to cooling of the hot electrons.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.79.161201
