Absolute negative conductivity and spontaneous current generation in semiconductor superlattices with hot electrons

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1302-1305

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

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

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; HOT CARRIERS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SEMICONDUCTOR GROWTH;

BLOCH OSCILLATION FREQUENCY; BOLTZMANN TRANSPORT EQUATION; NEGATIVE DIFFERENTIAL CONDUCTIVITY; SEMICLASSICAL BALANCE EQUATION MODEL;

SEMICONDUCTOR SUPERLATTICES;

EID: 0034245778     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.1302     Document Type: Article

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