2001/11/23 by K. N. Alekseev, Kirill N. Alekseev, Pekka Pietiläinen +7
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0111454
4 pages, 4 figures (2 color figs). Sufficient revision in comparison with version1: More explanations on physics of the effect are added. Removed from version1 material will be published elsewhere
openalex publication_date 2001/11/23 · arxiv created 2002/09/11 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
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.