• DocumentCode
    2787820
  • Title

    Observation of long-lived screening in low-temperature-grown GaAs photoconductive switches

  • Author

    Loata, G. ; Löffler, T. ; Thomson, M.D. ; Lisauskas, A. ; Roskos, H.G.

  • Author_Institution
    Physikalisches Institut, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitÿt, Max von Laue Str. 1, D-60438 Frankfurt, Germany
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    6-11 May 2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    A subgroup of photoexcited carriers in biased few-¿m-sized LT-GaAs switches is shown to recombine on a time scale of nanoseconds. This can induce field screening amounting to tens of percent of the applied field.
  • Keywords
    Charge carrier processes; Charge carriers; Electron traps; Gallium arsenide; Laser beams; Laser excitation; Optical switches; Photoconducting materials; Photoconductivity; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 2007. QELS '07
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-834-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/QELS.2007.4431360
  • Filename
    4431360