PROBING BAND-STRUCTURE ANISOTROPY IN QUANTUM-WELLS VIA MAGNETOTUNNELING

The resonances of a resonant tunneling structure are probed by a magnetic field applied parallel to the interfaces, which enables us to investigate the local band structure in k space. By rotating the magnetic field in the plane of the interfaces, the energy surface at constant k parallel-to is investigated. Using this technique we have studied differently strained Si/Si1-xGex quantum wells; we see a large anisotropy of the energy levels, with the symmetry axes of light holes and heavy holes being rotated 45-degrees with respect to each other.