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Light Scattering from Plasmons in Semiconductors

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Electronic Structures in Solids

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Light scattering with high-power CW lasers has proved to be an extremely powerful way to study some of the fundamental collective and single-particle excitations in solids. This lecture will discuss recent experimental and theoretical work1–3 carried out at Lincoln Laboratory on light scattering from plasmons in semiconductors, particularly GaAs. Not only have these studies confirmed that plasmons exist and couple to phonons as predicted,4 but they have allowed the various photon scattering mechanisms to be determined as well. Brief mention will also be made of some current work on light scattering from single-particle excitations.5–7

This work was sponsored by the U. S. Air Force.

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  1. Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lexington, Massachusetts, USA

    A. L. McWhorter

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  1. International Center for Advanced Studies, France

    E. D. Haidemenakis

  2. Faculté des Sciences, Université de Paris, Paris, France

    E. D. Haidemenakis

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McWhorter, A.L. (1969). Light Scattering from Plasmons in Semiconductors. In: Haidemenakis, E.D. (eds) Electronic Structures in Solids. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6537-0_26

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