Terahertz emission from CdHgTe/HgTe quantum wells with an inverted band structure


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The terahertz electroluminescence from Cd0.7Hg0.3Te/HgTe quantum wells with an inverted band structure in lateral electric fields is experimentally detected and studied. The emission-spectrum maximum for wells 6.5 and 7 nm wide is near 6 meV which corresponds to interband optical transitions. The emission is explained by state depletion in the valence band and conduction band filling due to Zener tunneling, which is confirmed by power-law current–voltage characteristics.

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Yu. Vasilyev

Ioffe Physical–Technical Institute

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Email: Yu.Vasilyev@mail.ioffe.ru
Rússia, ul. Politekhnicheskaya 26, St. Petersburg, 194021

N. Mikhailov

Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Siberian Branch; Novosibirsk State University

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Rússia, pr. Akad. Lavrent’eva 13, Novosibirsk, 630090; ul. Pirogova 2, Novosibirsk, 630090

G. Vasilyeva

Ioffe Physical–Technical Institute; Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University

Email: Yu.Vasilyev@mail.ioffe.ru
Rússia, ul. Politekhnicheskaya 26, St. Petersburg, 194021; ul. Polytekhnicheskaya 29, St. Petersburg, 195251

Yu. Ivánov

Ioffe Physical–Technical Institute

Email: Yu.Vasilyev@mail.ioffe.ru
Rússia, ul. Politekhnicheskaya 26, St. Petersburg, 194021

A. Zakhar’in

Ioffe Physical–Technical Institute

Email: Yu.Vasilyev@mail.ioffe.ru
Rússia, ul. Politekhnicheskaya 26, St. Petersburg, 194021

A. Andrianov

Ioffe Physical–Technical Institute

Email: Yu.Vasilyev@mail.ioffe.ru
Rússia, ul. Politekhnicheskaya 26, St. Petersburg, 194021

L. Vorobiev

Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University

Email: Yu.Vasilyev@mail.ioffe.ru
Rússia, ul. Polytekhnicheskaya 29, St. Petersburg, 195251

D. Firsov

Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University

Email: Yu.Vasilyev@mail.ioffe.ru
Rússia, ul. Polytekhnicheskaya 29, St. Petersburg, 195251

M. Grigoriev

Ustinov Baltic State Technical University “VOENMEKh”

Email: Yu.Vasilyev@mail.ioffe.ru
Rússia, ul. 1-ya Krasnoarmeiskaya 1, St.-Petersburg, 190005

A. Antonov

Institute for Physics of Microstructures

Email: Yu.Vasilyev@mail.ioffe.ru
Rússia, ul. Ul’yanova 46, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950

A. Ikonnikov

Institute for Physics of Microstructures

Email: Yu.Vasilyev@mail.ioffe.ru
Rússia, ul. Ul’yanova 46, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950

V. Gavrilenko

Institute for Physics of Microstructures

Email: Yu.Vasilyev@mail.ioffe.ru
Rússia, ul. Ul’yanova 46, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950

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