Observation of bistability in GaAs/AlAs superlattices
作者:
Yaohui Zhang,
Robert Klann,
Klaus H. Ploog,
Holger T. Grahn,
期刊:
Applied Physics Letters
(AIP Available online 1997)
卷期:
Volume 70,
issue 21
页码: 2825-2827
ISSN:0003-6951
年代: 1997
DOI:10.1063/1.119014
出版商: AIP
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
We have experimentally observed a new kind of current bistability in the time-averaged current-voltage (I-V) characteristic of doped, weakly coupled GaAs/AlAs superlattices, in which the transport is dominated by sequential resonant tunneling between adjacent quantum wells. Time-resolved current measurements show that in some cases the bistability is correlated with a subcritical Hopf bifurcation, while in other cases a discontinuous change of the current oscillation frequency is observed in the bistable region. The origin of this new bistability is attributed to a change of the space charge layer in the superlattice involving charging and discharging effects, which creates a feedback to the external bias. ©1997 American Institute of Physics.
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