posted on 2006-04-12, 16:10authored byKirill Alekseev, P. Pietilainen, A.A. Zharov, Feodor Kusmartsev
We find the conditions for a rectification of electromagnetic wave in a lateral semiconductor superlattice with a high mobility of electrons. The rectification is assisted by a transition to a dissipative chaos at a very high mobility. We show that mechanism responsible for the rectification is a creation of warm electrons in the superlattice miniband caused by an interplay of the effects of nonlinearity and finite band width.
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Science
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Physics
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Publication date
2002
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This is a pre-print. It is also available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0111454.