PHOTON-MEDIATED SEQUENTIAL RESONANT-TUNNELING IN INTENSE TERAHERTZ ELECTRIC-FIELDS

被引:157
作者
GUIMARAES, PSS
KEAY, BJ
KAMINSKI, JP
ALLEN, SJ
HOPKINS, PF
GOSSARD, AC
FLOREZ, LT
HARBISON, JP
机构
[1] UNIV CALIF SANTA BARBARA,DEPT MAT,SANTA BARBARA,CA 93106
[2] BELLCORE,RED BANK,NJ 07701
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.3792
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
We have measured the current-voltage (I-V) characteristic of semiconductor superlattices in the presence of intense terahertz electric fields produced by free-electron lasers. The nonlinear I-V curves exhibit new structure that we attribute to photon-mediated sequential resonant tunneling. This tunneling process consists of well to well sequential tunneling into photon sidebands induced by the terahertz electric fields.
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页码:3792 / 3795
页数:4
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