“…It is scattered to a certain wave vector k;, and subband n' by emitting an optical phonon of in-plane wave vector q and branch r. The total scattering rate W ( E ) for an electron of kinetic energy E = (h2/2m,*) kfi is given by the expression where S,,,(Q, kll, kfIl) means the scattering amplitude. Expression (99) has been evaluated in [45] for three GaAs QWs of different widths but equal barrier compositions (A10,2s . Ga,,,,As).…”