Efficacy of proposed 2DEG-based photoconductive antenna using magnetic bias-controlled carrier transport
| Autor: | Armando Somintac, Hannah Bardolaza, Deborah Anne Lumantas, Masahiko Tani, John Daniel Vasquez, Elmer Estacio, Arnel Salvador, Alexander De Los Reyes, Jessica Afalla, Joselito Muldera, Valynn Katrine Mag-usara |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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010302 applied physics
Materials science Terahertz radiation business.industry media_common.quotation_subject General Physics and Astronomy Heterojunction 02 engineering and technology Electron Condensed Matter::Mesoscopic Systems and Quantum Hall Effect 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 01 natural sciences Asymmetry Photoconductive antenna Magnetic field Condensed Matter::Materials Science 0103 physical sciences Optoelectronics General Materials Science 0210 nano-technology business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Current Applied Physics. 19:756-761 |
| ISSN: | 1567-1739 |
| Popis: | An externally applied magnetic field was used to induce increased photocarrier transport along the high mobility channel in GaAs/AlGaAs modulation-doped heterostructures (MDH). The terahertz (THz) emission from GaAs/AlGaAs MDH increases with increasing magnetic field, applied parallel to the heterojunction. The THz emission enhancement factors due to the magnetic field in MDH are higher than in undoped GaAs/AlGaAs heterojunction and in bulk SI-GaAs. This demonstrates that properly utilizing the high-mobility channel for carrier transport promises to be a viable design consideration for efficient THz photoconductive antenna (PCA) devices. Moreover, it was observed that for MDH, as well as for an undoped GaAs/AlGaAs heterojunction, the enhancement for one magnetic field direction is greater than the enhancement for the opposite direction. This is in contrast to the symmetric enhancement with magnetic field direction observed in a bulk SI-GaAs. An analysis of photocarrier trajectories under an external magnetic field supports the explanation that the enhancement asymmetry with magnetic field direction in MDH is due to the cycloid motion of electrons as affected by the GaAs/AlGaAs interface. |
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