photoreflectance

noun

reflectance that varies according to the incident light level

Scrabble 28

Meanings

nounphotoreflectance (plural photoreflectances)

plural photoreflectances

  1. natural sciencesreflectance that varies according to the incident light level

    We observe a pronounced dependency of the quality factor on the measurement scheme, and find that significantly larger quality factors can be extracted in photoreflectance compared to photoluminescence measurements.

    2015, Christian Schneider, Peter Gold, Stephan Reitzenstein, Sven Hoefling, Martin Kamp, “Quantum dot micropillar cavities with quality factors exceeding 250,000”, in arXiv

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