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Conductivity of a superlattice during electron scattering by optical phonons

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The conductivity is calculated for a semiconductor with a superlattice with simultaneous actions of constant (E) and varying (Eo cos ωt) electric fields, considered quasiclassically. It is shown that in calculating the current-voltage characteristics (CVC) at low temperatures (koT ≪ h ωo, ωo being the optical phonon frequency) and eo = 0 it is necessary to consider electrons as both absorbing and nonabsorbing optical phonons. The frequently used approximation of constant relaxation time is valid only for koT≫hωo, when scattering by optical phonons dominantes.

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  1. V. I. Lenin Kishinev State University, USSR

    G. M. Shmelev & N. A. Enaki

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  1. G. M. Shmelev
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 1, pp. 81–84, January, 1982.

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Shmelev, G.M., Enaki, N.A. Conductivity of a superlattice during electron scattering by optical phonons. Soviet Physics Journal 25, 78–81 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00893882

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