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Hot Electron Faraday Rotation and Birefringence in Semiconductors with Non‐Parabolic Energy Bands
Author(s) -
Almazov L. A.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
physica status solidi (b)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1521-3951
pISSN - 0370-1972
DOI - 10.1002/pssb.2220580245
Subject(s) - faraday effect , faraday rotator , birefringence , condensed matter physics , physics , faraday cage , isotropy , magneto optic effect , magnetic field , semiconductor , electric field , electron , dispersion (optics) , rotation (mathematics) , optics , quantum mechanics , mathematics , geometry
The phenomenon of Faraday rotation arising in semiconductors with isotropic dispersion law of carrier energy in the presence of dc electric and magnetic fields has been considered on the basis of expressions for the dielectric tensor obtained in a previous work [1]. It is shown that in the case of non‐parabolic energy bands the free‐carrier Faraday rotation is accompanied by birefringence. n‐type InSb is taken as an example for numerical calculations.