INTERBAND TUNNELING THROUGH A HEAVY-HOLE STATE

Alain Nogaret; M Maldonado; RE Carnahan; KP Martin; RJ Higgins; D K Maude; Jean-Claude Portal; LA Cury; JF Chen; AY Cho

doi:10.1063/1.355128

INTERBAND TUNNELING THROUGH A HEAVY-HOLE STATE

Alain Nogaret, M Maldonado, RE Carnahan, KP Martin, RJ Higgins, D K Maude, Jean-Claude Portal, LA Cury, JF Chen, AY Cho

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Abstract

We investigated interband tunneling transport through a hole well in five GaSb/AlSb/GaSb/AlSb/InAs type II tunnel devices in which the effect of the variation of barrier and well widths is systematically studied. Low temperature measurements were performed using high magnetic fields applied perpendicular to the current and hydrostaticpressures as external perturbations. A resonant current through the ground heavy hole subband in the GaSb well could be identified for the first time. This examination points out (i) the role of in‐plane momentum conservation in determining the resonance onset voltage, and (ii) the occurrence of a shoulder in the current when a maximum of states conducts through a resonant subband.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	6443-6445
Number of pages	3
Journal	Journal of Applied Physics
Volume	74
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.355128
Publication status	Published - 15 Nov 1993

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