Non-equilibrium longitudinal and transverse optical phonons in terahertz quantum cascade lasers
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quantum cascade lasers Miriam S. Vitiello, Rita C. Iotti, Fausto Rossi, Lukas Mahler, Alessandro Tredicucci, Harvey E. Beere, David A. Ritchie, Qing Hu, and Gaetano Scamarcio CNR-Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie UOS Bari and Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica “M. Merlin,” Università degli Studi di Bari, Via Amendola 173, 70126 Bari, Italy Dipartimento di Scienza Applicata e Tecnologia, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy NEST, CNR-Istituto Nanoscienze and Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza san Silvestro 12, 56127 Pisa, Italy Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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