Inelastic Electron Scattering in Double-Barrier Resonant Tunneling Structure Revealed with Photoexcitation
T. Figielski, A. Mąkosa, T. Wosiński
Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Al. Lotników 32/46, 02-668 Warszawa, Poland

P.C. Harness and K.E. Singer
Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), PO Box 88, Manchester, M60 1QP, U.K.
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We investigated current-voltage and photocurrent-voltage characteristics of a double-barrier resonant tunneling structure based on AlGaAs. To explain the observed "double-step" feature of the characteristics, we have proposed a mechanism including a multiple phonon emission of an electron dwelling in the quantum well.
DOI: 10.12693/APhysPolA.84.817
PACS numbers: 73.40.Gk, 85.30.Mn