Title
Resonant tunneling in GaAs/AlAs heterostructures grown by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition
Date Issued
01 December 1985
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Bonnefoi A.
Collins R.
McGill T.
Burnham R.
Abstract
We report the first observations of resonant tunneling in electronic transport perpendicular to two AlAs layers separated by a GaAs quantum well in GaAs/AlAs heterostructures grown by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition. Resonant tunneling can be observed as inflections in the I-V curves at room temperature. These inflections become more pronounced as the temperature is reduced, until negative differential resistance regions become visible for temperatures below 260 K. At low temperatures, the I-V curves not only reveal two large negative resistance regions corresponding to the first energy level in the GaAs quantum well but also a structure which shows evidence of resonant tunneling through the second and possibly the third energy states in the well. Second derivative (d2I/dV2) measurements confirm the existence of the resonances seen in the I-V curves.
Start page
285
End page
287
Volume
46
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física atómica, molecular y química
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-0022011965
Source
Applied Physics Letters
ISSN of the container
00036951
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