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Scattering of free carriers by phonons, free carriers and coupled plasmon-phonon modes is of fundamental interest in solid state physics, and also of interest in semiconductor devices such as bipolar transistors. Investigations of the rate of energy loss of high energy electrons incident on thin metallic films date back to 1930 [1, 2]. In more recent times scattering processes of free carriers, excitons and other excitations in semiconductors have been investigated by studying their relaxation dynamics with ultrafast lasers. There are a number of recent reviews of these ultrafast studies in semiconductors and their nanostructures [3, 4].
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Shah, J., Kim, DS. (1994). Investigation of Free-Carrier Scattering in Semiconductors Using Coherent Spectroscopy. In: Phillips, R.T. (eds) Coherent Optical Interactions in Semiconductors. NATO ASI Series, vol 330. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9748-0_6
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