An investigation of the energy relaxation of warm electrons in indium phosphide by means of the magnetophonon effect

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, , Citation L Eaves et al 1974 J. Phys. C: Solid State Phys. 7 1999 DOI 10.1088/0022-3719/7/11/015

0022-3719/7/11/1999

Abstract

The magnetophonon effect has been observed in the longitudinal and transverse magnetoresistance and the Hall voltage of n-InP under warm-electron conditions. Two distinct processes of electron energy relaxation are identified from the resonant structure: the first involves emission of a Gamma point LO phonon accompanied by the capture of the warm electron at an impurity site; the second corresponds to inter-Landau-level transitions by emission of a pair of TA phonons near the X point of the Brillouin zone. Three other extrema in the magnetoresistance are tentatively ascribed to resonant impact ionization of neutral donors.

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10.1088/0022-3719/7/11/015