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Measurement of the hot-electron conductivity in semiconductors using ultrafast electric pulses

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Semiconductor response to ultrafast electric pulses was investigated both theoretically and experimentally. The possibilities for hot-electron drift velocity estimation from a pulsed electric conductivity measurement were analysed. An optoelectronic arrangement with time resolution of 20 ps was used to perform such measurements on then-InSb andn-InAs single crystals. Negative differential mobility (n.d.m.) was observed in both semiconductors at high electric fields.

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  1. Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Lithuanian SSR, Vilnius, Lithuania, USSR

    Z. Dobrovolskis, K. Grigoras & A. Krotkus

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Dobrovolskis, Z., Grigoras, K. & Krotkus, A. Measurement of the hot-electron conductivity in semiconductors using ultrafast electric pulses. Appl. Phys. A 48, 245–249 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00619393

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