Abstract
Microinstabilities in semiconductor plasmas with dc magnetic and electric fields being applied perpendicular to each other are considered. Two‐stream and resistive‐type instabilities are discussed. For an example of the typical parameters of InSb, it is shown that a resistive‐type growing wave can be excited in the microwave frequency range. The analysis includes the effect of the electron‐lattice and hole‐lattice scatterings and that of the thermal velocity of the particles involved.

This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit: