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Homogeneous nucleation of opposite moving dipole domains and current self-oscillations in undoped photoexcited superlattices

✍ Scribed by J.I. Arana; L.L. Bonilla; H.T. Grahn


Book ID
104084935
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Weight
552 KB
Volume
40
Category
Article
ISSN
1386-9477

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✦ Synopsis


A model for charge transport in undoped photoexcited semiconductor superlattices with field-dependent recombination is proposed and analyzed. Under dc voltage bias and large photoexcitation, there appear self-sustained oscillations of the current due to repeated homogeneous nucleation of a number of charge dipole waves inside the sample. Different from the case of a constant recombination coefficient, nucleated dipole waves may split in two oppositely moving dipoles.