Table 2. Material constants and equations used as input for the thermal response simulations and calculations.

Thermal constants were taken from Sealy (1993 ▸), Tiwari (1992 ▸) and Ng (2015 ▸), and optical constants from Adachi (1989 ▸) and Rakić & Majewski (1996 ▸).

	GaAs	InAs	AlAs
Absorption coefficient (cm−1)	1.8 × 103	14.8 × 103	3.4
Thermal conductivity (W K−1 m−1)	κ(T) = κ300(T/300[K])−α
Constant κ300 (W K−1 m−1)	45.5	37	80
Exponent α	1.3	1.1	1.4
Specific heat (J K−1 kg−1)	c(T) = c 300 + c s{[(T/300)β − 1]/[(T/300)β + (c s/c 300)]}
Constant c 300	322	394	441
Constant c s	50	50	50
Exponent β	1.6	1.95	1.2