Mesoscopic Rectifiers Based on Ballistic Transport: Playing off Classical against Quantum Mechanics

Details Mesoscopic Rectifiers Based on Ballistic Transport: Playing off Classical against Quantum Mechanics Mesoscopic Rectifiers Based on Ballistic Transport: Playing off Classical against Quantum Mechanics

2001-12-17

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0112305v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

10 pages, 4 figures

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Recent experiments on symmetry-broken mesoscopic semiconductor structures have exhibited an amazing rectifying effect in the transverse current-voltage characteristics with promising prospects for future applications. We present a simple microscopic model, which takes into account the energy dependence of current-carrying modes and explains the rectifying effect by an interplay of fully quantized and quasi-classical transport channels in the system. It also suggests the design of a ballistic rectifier with an optimized rectifying signal and predicts voltage oscillations which may provide an experimental test for the mechanism considered here.

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