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The strong coupling that exists in a solid between the electrons and the phonons suggests the value of using phonons to study electronic properties. The approach is particularly well adapted to low-dimensional structures such as two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) since the electrons are confined to small regions by potential barriers and, at low temperatures, the phonons emitted by a hot 2DEG can travel across the substrate without being scattered. Hence information on their angular and frequency distribution can be deduced using detectors on the surface, and, in recent years, a number of experiments of this type have been carried out on phonon emission from 2DEGs in Si and GaAs. There have also been related experiments on phonon absorption and reflection using beams of phonons incident onto a 2DEG, and the two types of experiments are shown schematically in Figures 12.1 and 12.2. In this chapter only a selection of this work can be given and a number of pioneering experiments have had to be omitted that would be included in a complete review.
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Challis, L.J. (1993). Phonon Emission, Absorption, and Reflection from a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas. In: Butcher, P., March, N.H., Tosi, M.P. (eds) Physics of Low-Dimensional Semiconductor Structures. Physics of Solids and Liquids. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2415-5_12
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