Magnetic-field-enhanced quantum-cascade emission
- 3 January 2000
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 76 (1) , 19-21
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.125642
Abstract
We have observed an enhancement of terahertz intersubband electroluminescence in a quantum cascade structure in the presence of a magnetic field applied normal to the epitaxial layers. At a field of B=7.2 T the emission efficiency doubles. This effect is attributed to the suppression of nonradiative Auger–intersubband transitions caused by Landau-quantization of the in-plane electron motion. The magnetic field dependence of the luminescence intensity shows strong oscillations. These magnetointersubband oscillations are caused by the modulation of the transition rate via resonant inter-Landau-level transfer.Keywords
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