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Generation, Propagation and Detection of Terahertz Phonons In Gallium Arsenide

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Nonequilibrium Phonon Dynamics

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Tera-Hertz phonons in crystalline solids have attracted increasing attention in recent years. A variety of quite different methods has been developed to study the generation and decay mechanisms, and the scattering of dispersive high-frequency phonons in insulators and semiconductors1. The field is far from being mature; it is driven by the principal interest in excitations far from equilibrium. In addition there is the practical interest in studies of “hot” phonon phenomena, because of their close connection with the problem of non-equilibrium heat transport in electronic and electro-optic semiconductor devices2,3,4. The potential for probing bulk semiconductor materials and structures with a Tera-Hertz acoustic phonon microscope possibly down to 10 Å resolution is another fascinating challenge.

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Ulbrich, R.G. (1985). Generation, Propagation and Detection of Terahertz Phonons In Gallium Arsenide. In: Bron, W.E. (eds) Nonequilibrium Phonon Dynamics. NATO ASI Series, vol 124. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2501-7_3

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