Transport in a weakly-coupled superlattice: A quantitative approach for photon-assisted tunneling

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作者
Wacker, A
Jauho, AP
机构
[1] Mikroelektronik Centret, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet
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PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI B-BASIC RESEARCH | 1997年 / 204卷 / 01期
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10.1002/1521-3951(199711)204:1<73::AID-PSSB73>3.0.CO;2-D
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O469 [凝聚态物理学];
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070205 ;
摘要
Photon-assisted tunneling is studied in weakly-coupled semiconductor superlattices under THz irradiation. Using a microscopic transport model we find excellent quantitative agreement with experimental data for two different samples without using any fitting parameters.
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