INVESTIGATING THE CUBIC ANISOTROPY OF THE CONFINED HOLE SUBBANDS OF AN ALAS/GAAS/ALAS QUANTUM-WELL USING RESONANT MAGNETOTUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY

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HAYDEN, RK
EAVES, L
HENINI, M
TAKAMASU, T
MIURA, N
EKENBERG, U
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[1] UNIV TOKYO,INST SOLID STATE PHYS,TOKYO 106,JAPAN
[2] UNIV UPPSALA,INST FYS,S-75121 UPPSALA,SWEDEN
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10.1063/1.108469
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O59 [应用物理学];
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The energy-wave-vector dispersion curves and cubic anisotropy of the confined hole subbands of a (001) AlAs/GaAs/AlAs valence-band quantum well are studied in resonant magnetotunneling experiments using pulsed magnetic fields up to 41 T. The experimental results are compared with calculations using a six-band model which includes the effect of the finite electric field in the quantum well. The comparison convincingly demonstrates that the technique is sufficiently accurate to measure fine details of the band structure of the valence-band quantum well.
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