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Auger recombination coefficients are calculated numerically for InGaAsP/InP quantum well heterostructures. In narrow quantum wells, the quasi-threshold and thresholdless mechanisms mainly contribute to the Auger recombination coefficient. For the processes involving two electrons and a heavy hole (CHCC) or an electron and two heavy holes with a transition of one of the holes to the spin-orbit split-off band (CHHS), the Auger recombination coefficients depend on temperature only slightly in a wide temperature range. The dependence of the Auger coefficient on the quantum well width is analyzed and found to be nonmonotonic.
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Translated from Fizika i Tekhnika Poluprovodnikov, Vol. 34, No. 4, 2000, pp. 462–466.
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Gun’ko, N.A., Polkovnikov, A.S. & Zegrya, G.G. A numerical calculation of auger recombination coefficients for InGaAsP/InP quantum well heterostructures. Semiconductors 34, 448–452 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1188006
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