Spontaneous dc current generation in a resistively shunted semiconductor superlattice driven by a terahertz field

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 80, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2669-2672

  Alekseev, Kirill N ^a,b,c   Cannon, Ethan H ^a   McKinney, Jonathan C ^a   Kusmartsev, Feodor V ^b,d   Campbell, David K ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b NORDITA   (Denmark)

^c KIRENSKY INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^d LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; FREQUENCIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

BLOCH FREQUENCY; TERAHERTZ FIELD;

SEMICONDUCTOR SUPERLATTICES;

EID: 0032027904     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.2669     Document Type: Article

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