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It is shown that the photon avalanche mechanism can be used for producing nonequilibrium electron-hole pairs by low-intensity IR light with a photon energy smaller than the energy gap of a semiconductor by a factor of 3–5. A type II heterostructure with deep quantum wells is proposed to be employed for this purpose. In the model under investigation, the photon avalanche effect is due to a combination of a cascade of one-and two-photon transitions and Auger-type transitions.
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Translated from Zhurnal Éksperimental’no\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l}\) i Teoretichesko\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l}\) Fiziki, Vol. 123, No. 3, 2003, pp. 612–624.
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Perlin, E.Y., Ivanov, A.V. & Levitskii, R.S. Cascade avalanche production of electron-hole pairs in type II quantum wells. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 96, 543–554 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1567429
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