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Spontaneous self-sustained chaotic current oscillations are observed experimentally in lightly-doped weakly-coupled GaAs/Al0.45Ga0.55As superlattices at room temperature for the first time. The mole fraction of Aluminum in the barrier is chosen to be 0.45 to suppress the thermal carrier leakage through the X-band valley. The effective nonlinearity induced by the sequential well-to-well resonant tunneling can still be strong enough to induce spontaneous chaotic current oscillations even at room temperature. The frequency spectrum of the chaotic current oscillations is ranged from DC to 4 GHz, which can be used as ultra-wide-band noise sources with a bandwidth of several Giga Hertz.
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Huang, Y., Li, W., Ma, W. et al. Experimental observation of spontaneous chaotic current oscillations in GaAs/Al0.45Ga0.55As superlattices at room temperature. Chin. Sci. Bull. 57, 2070–2072 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-012-5198-8
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