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Free carrier absorption

Free carrier absorption occurs when a material absorbs a photon, and a carrier (electron or hole) is excited from an already-excited state to another… 
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Density matrixElectron holeIndium tin oxideInterband cascade laser

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Quantum mechanics

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Review
2017
Review
2017
Silicon photonic platforms for mid-infrared applications [Invited]
Silicon photonic integrated circuits for telecommunication and data centers have been well studied in the past decade, and now… 
Highly Cited
2016
Highly Cited
2016
Parasitic Absorption in Polycrystalline Si-layers for Carrier-selective Front Junctions
Highly Cited
2015
Highly Cited
2015
Predictions of Free-Carrier Electroabsorption and Electrorefraction in Germanium
Germanium is becoming an important material for mid-infrared photonics, but the modulation mechanisms in Ge are not yet well… 
Highly Cited
2013
Highly Cited
2013
Hydrogen-doped indium oxide/indium tin oxide bilayers for high-efficiency silicon heterojunction solar cells
Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
Fundamental limits on optical transparency of transparent conducting oxides: Free-carrier absorption in SnO2
Transparent conducting oxides combine high electrical conductivity with transparency to visible light. However, the large… 
Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Auger recombination and free-carrier absorption in nitrides from first principles
We have developed a computationally-tractable first-principles approach (based on density-functional and many-body perturbation… 
Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Theoretical and experimental investigations of the limits to the maximum output power of laser diodes
The factors that limit both the continuous wave (CW) and the pulsed output power of broad-area laser diodes driven at very high… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Modelling free‐carrier absorption in solar cells
Free-carrier absorption can be a significant parasitic optical absorption process in solar cells. Although estimates of its… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Limiting efficiency of silicon solar cells
The detailed balance method for calculating the radiative recombination limit to the performance of solar cells has been extended… 
Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
Free carrier absorption in silicon
Free carrier absorption in heavily doped layers reduces the useful photon flux in the photoconductive region of extrinsic Si… 
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