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arXiv 2003.11969physics.app-phquant-ph

Ultrafast strain-induced charge transport in semiconductor superlattices

F. Wang, C. L. Poyser, M. T. Greenaway, A. V. Akimov, R. P. Campion, A. J. Kent, T. M. Fromhold, A. G. Balanov

英文摘要:

We investigate the effect of hypersonic (> 1 GHz) acoustic phonon wavepackets on electron transport in a semiconductor superlattice. Our quantum mechanical simulations demonstrate that a GHz train of picosecond deformation strain pulses propagating through a superlattice can generate current oscillations whose frequency is several times higher than that of the strain pulse train. The shape and polarity of the calculated current pulses agree well with experimentally measured electric signals. The calculations also explain and accurately reproduce the measured variation of the induced current pulse magnitude with the strain pulse amplitude and applied bias voltage. Our results open a route to developing acoustically-driven semiconductor superlattices as sources of millimetre and sub-millimetre electromagnetic waves.

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