Asymptotic analysis of the Gunn effect with realistic boundary conditions

Details Asymptotic analysis of the Gunn effect with realistic boundary conditions Asymptotic analysis of the Gunn effect with realistic boundary conditions

1997-05-26

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9705264v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

11 pages, 7 Post-Script figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.56.1500

A general asymptotic analysis of the Gunn effect in n-GaAs under general boundary conditions for metal-semiconductor contacts is presented. Depending on the parameter values in the boundary condition of the injecting contact, different types of waves mediate the Gunn effect. The periodic current oscillation typical of the Gunn effect may be caused by moving charge-monopole accumulation or depletion layers, or by low or high-field charge-dipole solitary waves. A new instability caused by multiple shedding of (low field) dipole waves is found. In all cases the shape of the current oscillation is described in detail: we show the direct relationship between its major features (maxima, minima, plateau's, ...) and several critical currents (which depend on the values of the contact parameters). Our results open the possibility of measuring contact parameters from the analysis of the shape of the current oscillation.

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