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Transport in a Weakly‐Coupled Superlattice: A Quantitative Approach for Photon‐Assisted Tunneling
Author(s) -
Wacker A.,
Jauho A.P.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
physica status solidi (b)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1521-3951
pISSN - 0370-1972
DOI - 10.1002/1521-3951(199711)204:1<73::aid-pssb73>3.0.co;2-d
Subject(s) - superlattice , quantum tunnelling , condensed matter physics , semiconductor , photon , materials science , physics , optoelectronics , optics
Photon‐assisted tunneling is studied in weakly‐coupled semiconductor superlattices under THz irradiation. Using a microscopic transport model we find excellent quantitative agreement with experimental data for two different samples without using any fitting parameters.