Continuum wannier-stark ladders strongly coupled by zener resonances in semiconductor superlattices

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 82, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 3120-3123

  Helm, M ^a   Hilber, W ^a   Strasser, G ^b   De Meester, R ^c   Peeters, F M ^c   Wacker, A ^d  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; BAND STRUCTURE; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRON RESONANCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ELECTRON TUNNELING; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT; DIFFERENTIAL TRANSMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; NEGATIVE DIFFERENTIAL RESISTANCE (NDR); WANNIER-STARK LADDERS; ZENER RESONANCE;

SEMICONDUCTOR SUPERLATTICES;

EID: 0032606439     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.3120     Document Type: Article

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