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Carrier Heating

Carrier Heating is a physical phenomenon in semiconductor physics whereby charge carriers gain kinetic energy from an applied electric field, leading to a non-equilibrium distribution with elevated effective temperature relative to the lattice.

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811

Authors

263

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2017–2026

28

Variants

Hot Carrier Effect

Parents

Publications

246

Generation of photovoltage in graphene on a femtosecond timescale through efficient carrier heating

Klaas‐Jan Tielrooij, Mathieu Massicotte, Achim Woessner et al. · Nature Nanotechnology · 2015 · 279 citations · Full text

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Wave mixing in semiconductor laser amplifiers due to carrier heating and spectral-hole burning

Alexander V. Uskov, J. Mark · IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics · 1994 · 257 citations

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Impact ionization in InSb probed by terahertz pump—terahertz probe spectroscopy

Matthias C. Hoffmann, János Hebling, Harold Y. Hwang et al. · Physical Review B · 2009 · 220 citations · Full text

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Simulation of carrier transport and nonlinearities in quantum-well laser diodes

Matt Grupen, K. Hess · IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics · 1998 · 201 citations

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Saturation effects in nondegenerate four-wave mixing between short optical pulses in semiconductor laser amplifiers

Antonio Mecozzi · IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics · 1997 · 191 citations

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Authors

811

  1. CT
    Chin‐Yi Tsai

    National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan

    8 publications · 278 citations

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  2. VR
    V. Ryzhii

    University of Aizu, Japan

    7 publications · 168 citations

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  3. DB
    D. Bimberg

    Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

    7 publications · 343 citations

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  4. AV
    Alexander V. Uskov

    P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

    7 publications · 519 citations

    7

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  5. JE
    John E. Bowers

    University of California, Santa Barbara, United States

    7 publications · 256 citations

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Institutions

263

  1. Technische Universität Berlin

    Berlin, Germany

    10 h-index

    31 publications

    1.3K citations

  2. University of California, Santa Barbara

    Santa Barbara, United States

    9 h-index

    31 publications

    926 citations

  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    7 h-index

    25 publications

    2.7K citations

  4. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

    Troy, United States

    6 h-index

    7 publications

    152 citations

  5. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    6 h-index

    13 publications

    782 citations

  6. AT&T (United States)

    Bedminster, United States

    6 h-index

    14 publications

    324 citations

  7. University of Bologna

    Bologna, Italy

    6 h-index

    16 publications

    1.4K citations

  8. Fondazione "Ugo Bordoni"

    Rome, Italy

    6 h-index

    10 publications

    737 citations

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Venues

  1. Applied Physics Letters

    40 publications · 1.7K citations

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  2. IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

    27 publications · 1.6K citations

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  3. Journal of Applied Physics

    20 publications · 599 citations

    15

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  4. IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

    13 publications · 581 citations

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  5. Physical review. B, Condensed matter

    PRB · 14 publications · 451 citations

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