Efficacy of proposed 2DEG-based photoconductive antenna using magnetic bias-controlled carrier transport

College

College of Science

Department/Unit

Physics

Document Type

Article

Source Title

Current Applied Physics

Volume

19

Issue

6

First Page

756

Last Page

761

Publication Date

6-1-2019

Abstract

An externally applied magnetic field was used to induce increased photocarrier transport along the high mobility channel in GaAs/AlGaAs modulation-doped heterostructures (MDH). The terahertz (THz) emission from GaAs/AlGaAs MDH increases with increasing magnetic field, applied parallel to the heterojunction. The THz emission enhancement factors due to the magnetic field in MDH are higher than in undoped GaAs/AlGaAs heterojunction and in bulk SI-GaAs. This demonstrates that properly utilizing the high-mobility channel for carrier transport promises to be a viable design consideration for efficient THz photoconductive antenna (PCA) devices. Moreover, it was observed that for MDH, as well as for an undoped GaAs/AlGaAs heterojunction, the enhancement for one magnetic field direction is greater than the enhancement for the opposite direction. This is in contrast to the symmetric enhancement with magnetic field direction observed in a bulk SI-GaAs. An analysis of photocarrier trajectories under an external magnetic field supports the explanation that the enhancement asymmetry with magnetic field direction in MDH is due to the cycloid motion of electrons as affected by the GaAs/AlGaAs interface. © 2019 Korean Physical Society

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Digitial Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1016/j.cap.2019.04.003

Disciplines

Physics

Keywords

Heterostructures; Magnetic fields; Heterojunctions; Submillimeter waves; Photoconductivity

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