IOP Publishing, Semiconductor Science and Technology, 4(19), p. S465-S468
DOI: 10.1088/0268-1242/19/4/153
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Optical excitation of shallow donor centres in silicon creates an inverted electron distribution on the Coulomb centres at low lattice temperature. The population inversion is formed due to the peculiarities of the electron-phonon interaction of free and bound charge carriers. At certain conditions stimulated emission in the THz frequency range from group-V donors in silicon can be obtained.