Identification of an organic semiconductor superlattice structure of pentacene and perfluoro-pentacene through resonant and non-resonant X-ray scattering S. Kowarik,1 A. Hinderhofer,2 C. Wang,3 C. Weber,1 A. Gerlach,2 A. Hexemer,3 S. R. Leone,4 and F. Schreiber2 1Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Physik, Newtonstr. 15, 12489 Berlin, Germany 2Universität Tübingen, Institut für Angewan...

The electromagnetic propagator associated with the localized collective magnetoplasmon excitations in a semiconductor superlattice with broken translational symmetry, is calculated analytically within linear response theory. We discuss the properties of these collective excitations in both radiative and nonradiative regimes of the electromagnetic spectra. We find that low frequency retarded mod...

We propose an efficient hyperentanglement source emitting photon pairs entangled in both energy and polarization. The compact electrically driven room-temperature source, based on intersubband two-photon emission from semiconductor quantum wells (QWs) exhibits pair generation rates several orders of magnitude higher than alternative conventional schemes. A theoretical formalism is derived for t...

We examine the phenomenon of electromagnetic transparency in semiconductor superlattices having various miniband dispersion laws in the presence of multi-frequency periodic and nonperiodic electric fields. Effects of induced transparency and spontaneous generation of static fields are discussed. We pay special attention to self-induced electromagnetic transparency and its correlation to dynamic...

The coherent excitation of excitonic and continuum Wannier-Stark states in a semiconductor superlattice with femtosecond laser pulses leads to a modulation of both the interband and the intraband polarization. The field dependence of the Bloch oscillation frequency of the nonlinear interband polarization is shown to differ strongly from that of the intraband polarization. We find that the obser...

In this paper, we rigorously derive a diffusion model for semiconductor superlattices, starting from a kinetic description of electron transport at the microscopic scale. Electron transport in the superlattice is modelled by a collisionless Boltzmann equation subject to a periodic array of localized scatters modeling the periodic heterogeneities of the material. The limit of a large number of p...

Shot noise: Fluctuations of the current flowing through a device that result from the discreteness of the charge carrier. Shot noise provides information on the charge carriers and the transport mechanism in the device. The shot noise measurements in semiconductor heterostructure devices shed light on how the devices operate, beyond information provided by the electrical conductance. The shot n...

We demonstrate the phase locking of a 2.7 THz metal-metal waveguide quantum cascade laser (QCL) to an external microwave signal. The reference is the 15th harmonic, generated by a semiconductor superlattice nonlinear device, of a signal at 182 GHz, which itself is generated by a multiplier chain (x12) from a microwave synthesizer at approximately 15 GHz. Both laser and reference radiations are ...

Transport properties of a superconductor-semiconductor-superconductor (Su-Sm-Su) junction with superlattice structure are investigated. Differential resistance as a function of voltage shows oscillatory behavior under the irradiation of radio-frequency (rf) waves with the specific frequency of 1.77 GHz regardless of the superconducting materials and the junction geometries. Experimental data ar...

We present calculations on the magnetocapacitance of the twodimensional electron gas in a lateral semiconductor superlattice under two-dimensional weak periodic potential modulation in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. Adopting a Gaussian broadening of magnetic-field-dependent width in the density of states, we present explicit and simple expressions for the magnetocapacitance, va...