PROBING THE HOLE DISPERSION-CURVES OF A QUANTUM-WELL USING RESONANT MAGNETOTUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY

被引:196
作者
HAYDEN, RK
MAUDE, DK
EAVES, L
VALADARES, EC
HENINI, M
SHEARD, FW
HUGHES, OH
PORTAL, JC
CURY, L
机构
[1] INST NATL SCI APPL,PHYS SOLIDES LAB,F-31077 TOULOUSE,FRANCE
[2] CNRS,SERV NATL CHAMPS INTENSES,F-38042 GRENOBLE,FRANCE
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.66.1749
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O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
We describe a novel magnetotunneling spectroscopy technique for probing the complicated dispersion curves of hole states in the quantum well of p-type double-barrier resonant-tunneling structures. Strong mixing between light- and heavy-hole states is observed. Some of the states clearly exhibit a negative hole effective mass for motion in the plane of the quantum well.
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页码:1749 / 1752
页数:4
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