Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2009-01-12
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
14 pages, 15 figures, submitted
Scientific paper
We study a model describing electronic transport in a weakly-coupled semiconductor superlattice with a shunting side layer. Key parameters include the lateral size of the superlattice, the connectivity between the quantum wells of the superlattice and the shunt layer, and the conduction properties of the shunt layer. For a superlattice with small lateral extent and high quality shunt, static electric field domains are suppressed and a spatially-uniform field configuration is predicted to be stable, a result that may be useful for proposed devices such as a superlattice-based TeraHertz (THz) oscillators. As the lateral size of the superlattice increases, the uniform field configuration loses its stability to either static or dynamic field domains, regardless of shunt properties. A lower quality shunt generally leads to regular and chaotic current oscillations and complex spatio-temporal dynamics in the field profile. Bifurcations separating static and dynamic behaviors are characterized and found to be dependent on the shunt properties.
Amann Andreas
Schöll Eckehard
Teitsworth Stephen W.
Xu Huidong
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