STARK-LADDER TRANSITIONS AND THEIR OSCILLATOR-STRENGTHS IN GAAS/ALAS SUPERLATTICES

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KAWASHIMA, K [1 ]
YAMAMOTO, T [1 ]
KOBAYASHI, K [1 ]
FUJIWARA, K [1 ]
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[1] KYUSHU INST TECHNOL,DEPT ELECT ENGN,TOBATA KU,KITAKYUSHU 804,JAPAN
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PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1993年 / 47卷 / 15期
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10.1103/PhysRevB.47.9921
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T [工业技术];
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We have studied Stark-ladder transitions and their oscillator strengths in GaAs/AlAs superlattices with different miniband widths 2DELTA by low-temperature photocurrent spectroscopy. The measured intensity ratio as a function of an electric field F of the nth-order Stark-ladder transition normalized by the zeroth-order transition shows a clear F-2n dependence in the limit of high field. A DELTA2 dependence of the measured intensity ratio on the miniband width is also obtained. These results support the tight-binding theory of Bleuse, Bastard, and Voisin [Phys. Rev. Lett. 60, 220 (1988)].
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页码:9921 / 9924
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