NONEQUILIBRIUM ACOUSTIC PHONON-ASSISTED TUNNELING IN GAAS/(ALGA)AS DOUBLE-BARRIER DEVICES

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作者
OUALI, FF
ZINOVEV, NN
CHALLIS, LJ
SHEARD, FW
HENINI, M
STEENSON, DP
STRICKLAND, KR
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[1] Physics Department, University of Nottingham
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.308
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
We report the first observations of nonequilibrium phonon-assisted tunneling in a double barrier resonant tunneling device in GaAs. The change in tunnel current produced by the phonons occurs at a bias voltage, which depends on the phonon energy showing that the device has potential as a phonon spectrometer. © 1995 The American Physical Society.
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