Abstract
Nonequilibrium electron distributions and phonons in CdTe have been studied by transient picosecond/subpicosecond Raman spectroscopy at T=300 K. Our experimental results show that for photoexcited electron–hole density of n≂1018 cm−3, the electron distributions can be reasonably well described by Fermi–Dirac distribution functions with effective electron temperature substantially higher than the lattice temperature. From an ensemble Monte Carlo analysis of the nonequilibrium phonon population as a function of photoexcited electron–hole pair density, the LO phonon lifetime in CdTe has been deduced to be τ≂0.75±0.25 ps.
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