Abstract
The electron heating by a strong longitudinal electric field and the energy losses due to the scattering of nonequilibrium electrons by polar optical phonons in rectangular GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells are studied. A simple model is suggested to calculate the rate of energy losses due to the scattering of electrons by nonequilibrium optical phonons. Some of the experimental results on the heating of charge carriers in quantum wells are discussed, and it is shown that taking nonequilibrium optical phonons into account significantly improves the agreement between the theoretical and experimental data.
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