Abstract
Phonon-assisted Auger recombination (AR) is shown to be an important loss mechanism in a quantum well semiconductor in addition to the direct AR. Theoretical investigations demonstrate that it is of the same order of magnitude and has the same temperature dependence as in bulk material, just as direct AR, provided that the material parameters and the carrier concentrations are the same as in the bulk.
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