Phys. Rev. Lett. 52, 1445–1448 (1984)Strong Electric Field Heating of Conduction-Band Electrons in SiO2Received 29 December 1983; published in the issue dated 16 April 1984 We demonstrate that average conduction-band electrons in a wide-band-gap insulator, SiO2, are heated several electronvolts above the conduction-band edge at fields of 5 to 12 MV/cm. The electronic energy distribution appears to be stabilized at these high fields by energy-loss mechanisms other than LO-phonon scattering. © 1984 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.52.1445
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.52.1445
PACS:
72.20.Ht, 73.40.Qv, 73.40.Ty, 73.60.Hy
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