Thermal breakdown, bistability, and complex high-frequency current oscillations due to carrier heating in superlattices

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 76, Issue 15, 2000, Pages 2059-2061

  Steuer, Haiko ^a   Wacker, Andreas ^a   Schöll, Eckehard ^a   Ellmauer, Michael ^b   Schomburg, Ekkehard ^b   Renk, Karl Friedrich ^b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

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EID: 0000129090     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.126254     Document Type: Article

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