Anisotropy of phonon emission from hot electrons in germanium

Abstract

We have measured quantitatively the anisotropy of the electron-acoustical phonon scattering in n-germanium in five directions of the (lTO) plane utilizing tunneling junctions for calibrated detection of the phonon radiation emitted from a small avalanche breakdown region in the germanium surface. For comparison and evaluation of phonon focusing a constantan heater and a tunneling junction were also used as phonon sources. A similar experiment has been reported by A. Zylbersztejn, but he could only compare the ratio of the amplitudes of longitudinal and transverse phonon pulses in a given crystal direction to the calculation.