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Negative Differential Conductivity in InAs/AlSb Superlattices

M.S. Kagan^a, I.V. Altukhov^a, A.N. Baranov^b, N.D. Il'ynskaya^c, S.K. Paprotskiy^a, V.P. Sinis^a, R. Teissier^b and A.A. Usikova^c
^aV.A. Kotel'nikov Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, Russian Ac. Sci., Moscow, Russia, [-2pt]
^bIES, Université Montpellier 2, CNRS, Montpellier, France, [-2pt]
^cA.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, Russian Ac. Sci., St. Petersburg, Russia

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The negative differential conductivity and electric instabilities are found to appear in type-II InAs/AlSb superlattices. The origin of the nonlinear effects is discussed.

DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.119.210
PACS numbers: 72.20.Ht, 73.50.Fq, 73.63.-b