Photon-Assisted Resonant Tunneling through a GaAs/AlGaAs Multiple Quantum Well Structure,

Abstract

The use of bandgap engineering techniques to tailor the perpendicular transport characteristics of layered semiconductor structures has resulted in a variety of new phenomena and devices concepts . In particular the coherent interaction of electron waves reflected at interfaces gives rise to resonant tunneling effects which filter electrons of certain energy through the structure. A structure specifically designed for electron energy filtering is the variably spaced superlattice energy filter (VSSEF) in which the quantized states in adjacent quantum wells become aligned under appropriate bias conditions.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 22, 1992
Accession Number
ADP007681

Entities

People

  • Anders Larsson
  • Bjorn Jonsson
  • Ingemar Andersson
  • Johan Westin
  • Thorwald Andersson

Organizations

  • Chalmers University of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Electron Energy
  • Electronics
  • Electrons
  • Energy
  • Engineering
  • Filters
  • Nanoelectronics
  • Power Electronics
  • Quantum Tunneling
  • Quantum Wells
  • Semiconductor Devices
  • Semiconductors
  • Solid State Electronics
  • Tunneling

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

Readers

  • Phased Array Antenna Design.
  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics
  • Semiconductor Device Technology

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Graphene
  • Quantum Computing
  • Space
  • Space - Space Objects