Electric field-induced quasi-elastic inter-landau level scattering in the space-charge-limited magnetoconductivity of n+n−n+ InP structures

✍ Scribed by C.A. Payling; P.S.S. Guimaraes; L. Eaves; B.R. Snell; J.C. Portal; M.A. di Forte-Poisson; C. Brylinski; G. Hill; M.A. Pate

• Book ID: 103917456
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 350 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0749-6036
• DOI: 10.1016/0749-6036(86)90003-0

✦ Synopsis

Magnetophonon resonance and quasi-elastic inter-Landau level scattering (QUILLS) are investigated in the transverse magnetoconductivity, Oxx, of short (I pm) n+n-n + InP structures under conditions of space-charge-limited conduction.

The damping of the magnetophonon resonance amplitudes at large E is also investigated.

The electric field dependence of the QUILLS process in InP is in excellent agreement with a model that we have previously proposed to describe the process in n+nn + GaAs layers. The observed form of the space-charge-limited current-voltage characteristics (I = V 2) is discussed in terms of the behaviour of electrons in short, lightly doped semiconductor layers under the influence of large, mutually perpendicular electric and magnetic fields.