Cyclotron resonance in the high mobility GaAs/AlGaAs 2D electron system over the microwave, mm-wave, and terahertz- bands

Abstract

The reflected microwave power from the photo-excited high mobility GaAs/AlGaAs 2D device has been measured over the wide frequency band spanning from 30 to 330 GHz simultaneously along with diagonal magnetoresistance as a function of the magnetic field. Easily distinguishable resonances in the reflected power signal are observed at the same magnetic fields as a reduced amplitude in the Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) oscillations of the diagonal magnetoresistance. The reflection resonances with concurrent amplitude reduction in SdH oscillations are correlated with cyclotron resonance induced by microwave, mm-wave, and terahertz photoexcitation. The magnetoplasma effect was also investigated. The results suggest a finite frequency zero-magnetic-field intercept, providing an estimate for the plasma frequency. The experimentally measured plasma frequency appears to be somewhat lower than the estimated plasma frequency for these Hall bars. The results, in sum, are consistent with an effective mass ratio of m*/m = 0.067, the standard value, even in these high mobility GaAs/AlGaAs devices, at very large filling factors. Preliminary findings from this article have been published as conference proceedings, see Kriisa, A., et al., J. of Phys. Conf. Ser. 864, 012057 (2017).

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Feb 20, 2019
Source ID
10.1038/s41598-019-39186-2

Entities

People

  • Annika Kriisa
  • C. Reichl
  • Henry O. Everitt
  • M. S. Heimbeck
  • R. G. Mani
  • Rasanga Samaraweera
  • W. Wegscheider

Organizations

  • Army Research Office
  • United States Department of Energy

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Fields of Study

  • Physics

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  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics
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  • Microelectronics