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Intraband Transitions

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Superlattices and Other Heterostructures

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Abstract

In quantum-mechanical terms, the cyclotron and electron-spin resonances originate from optical transitions of carriers between the Landau levels and magneticfield-splitted spin sublevels. Measurement of the dependence of the cyclotronresonance frequency on the magnitude and direction of magnetic field provides a direct and reliable way for determining the electron (or hole) effective mass, as well as for studying the nonparabolicity and nonsphericity of an electronic band in a semiconductor. In connection with this, we derive in Sec. 7.1 expressions for the longitudinal and transverse electron mass in a superlattice at the miniband bottom, analyze how the choice of the boundary conditions for the envelopes at the interfaces affects these masses, and discuss the nonparabolicity of the miniband spectrum.

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Ivchenko, E.L., Pikus, G. (1995). Intraband Transitions. In: Superlattices and Other Heterostructures. Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, vol 110. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-97589-9_7

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