Terahertz emission due to interminiband resonant Zener tunneling in wide-miniband GaAs/Al0.3Ga0.7As superlattices

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 4926-4928

  Shimada, Y ^a,b   Sekine, N ^a   Hirakawa, K ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE TRANSFER; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GROUND STATE; LASER MODE LOCKING; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS; SEMICONDUCTOR SUPERLATTICES;

INTRAMINIBAND TRANSPORT; PHOTON ENERGY; TERAHERTZ EMISSION; ZENER TUNNELING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION;

EID: 3042818242     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1759382     Document Type: Article

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