Superlattice nonlinearities for Gigahertz-Terahertz generation in harmonic multipliers

A Apostolakis, MF Pereira - Nanophotonics, 2020 - degruyter.com
Semiconductor superlattices are strongly nonlinear media offering several technological
challenges associated with the generation of high-frequency Gigahertz radiation and very …

[HTML][HTML] Controlling the harmonic conversion efficiency in semiconductor superlattices by interface roughness design

A Apostolakis, MF Pereira - AIP Advances, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
In semiconductor superlattices, when Bragg oscillating electrons interact with an input
electromagnetic field, frequency multiplication is possible. An ideal superlattice has a purely …

Effect of temperature on resonant electron transport through stochastic conduction channels in superlattices

AO Selskii, AA Koronovskii, AE Hramov… - Physical Review B …, 2011 - APS
We show that resonant electron transport in semiconductor superlattices with an applied
electric and tilted magnetic field can, surprisingly, become more pronounced as the lattice …

[HTML][HTML] Coexistence of bloch and parametric mechanisms of high-frequency gain in doped superlattices

V Čižas, N Alexeeva, KN Alekseev, G Valušis - Nanomaterials, 2023 - mdpi.com
The detailed theoretical study of high-frequency signal gain, when a probe microwave signal
is comparable to the AC pump electric field in a semiconductor superlattice, is presented …

Potential and limits of superlattice multipliers coupled to different input power sources

A Apostolakis, MF Pereira - Journal of Nanophotonics, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
A theoretical study is presented to assess the performance of semiconductor superlattice
(SL) multipliers as a function of the currently available input power sources. The prime …

Dissipative Parametric Gain in a Superlattice

V Čižas, L Subačius, NV Alexeeva, D Seliuta, T Hyart… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Parametric generation of oscillations and waves is a paradigm, which is known to be
realized in various physical systems. Unique properties of quantum semiconductor …

Terahertz Bloch oscillator with a modulated bias

T Hyart, NV Alexeeva, J Mattas, KN Alekseev - Physical review letters, 2009 - APS
Electrons performing Bloch oscillations in an energy band of a dc-biased superlattice in the
presence of weak dissipation can potentially generate THz fields at room temperature. The …

Model of the Influence of an External Magnetic Field on the Gain of Terahertz Radiation<? format?> from Semiconductor Superlattices

T Hyart, J Mattas, KN Alekseev - Physical review letters, 2009 - APS
We theoretically analyze the influence of magnetic field on small-signal absorption and gain
in a superlattice. We predict a very large and tunable THz gain due to nonlinear cyclotron …

Bloch gain in dc-ac-driven semiconductor superlattices in the absence of electric domains

T Hyart, KN Alekseev, EV Thuneberg - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2008 - APS
We theoretically study the feasibility of amplification and generation of terahertz radiation in
dc-ac-driven semiconductor superlattices in the absence of electric domains. We find that if …

Influence of the constant electric field on the mutual rectification of the electromagnetic waves in graphene superlattice

SV Kryuchkov, EI Kukhar - Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and …, 2012 - Elsevier
In tight binding approximation the explicit view of electron energy in graphene superlattice
was derived. The possibility of propagation of the cnoidal waves in graphene superlattice is …