Highly superlinear giant terahertz photoconductance in GaAs quantum point contacts in the deep tunneling regime

Otteneder, M. and Hild, M. and Kvon, Z. D. and Rodyakina, E. E. and Glazov, M. M. and Ganichev, S. D. (2021) Highly superlinear giant terahertz photoconductance in GaAs quantum point contacts in the deep tunneling regime. PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 104 (20): 205304. ISSN 2469-9950, 2469-9969

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Abstract

A highly superlinear in radiation intensity photoconductance induced by continuous wave terahertz laser radiation with low intensities has been observed in quantum point contacts made of GaAs quantum wells operating in the deep tunneling regime. For very low values of the normalized dark conductance G(dark)/G(0) approximate to 10(-6), with the conductance quantum G(0) = 2e(2)/h, the photoconductance scales exponentially with the radiation intensity, so that already at 100 mW/cm(2), it increases by almost four orders of magnitude. This effect is observed for a radiation electric field oriented along the source drain direction. We provide model considerations of the effect and attribute it to the variation of the tunneling barrier height by the radiation field made possible by local diffraction effects. We also demonstrate that cyclotron resonance due to an external magnetic field manifests itself in the photoconductance, completely suppressing the photoresponse.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: CYCLOTRON-RESONANCE; MAGNETIC-FIELD; TRANSPORT; IONIZATION; IMPURITIES
Subjects: 500 Science > 530 Physics
Divisions: Physics > Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics > Professor Ganichev > Group Sergey Ganichev
Depositing User: Dr. Gernot Deinzer
Date Deposited: 23 Aug 2022 04:53
Last Modified: 23 Aug 2022 04:53
URI: https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/46796

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