Semiconductor superlattice micro-/nanowires could greatly increase the versatility and power of modulating electronic (or excitonic, photonic) transport, optical properties. In this communication, we report growth of a semiconductor CdS/CdS:SnS(2) superlattice microwire through a coevaporation technique with microenvironmental control. Such a novel superlattice microwire can modulate the excito...

The transport of electrons in a semiconductor superlattice miniband under the influence of electrical and magnetic fields, which are applied in different directions on the superlattice, is investigated. The time series diagrams and the Lyapunov exponent are computed using the fourth-order Runge-Kutta method. The numerical computations show that for particular values of the parameters, which dep...

We have found experimentally that the shot noise of the tunneling current I through an undoped semiconductor superlattice is reduced with respect to the Poissonian noise value 2eI, and that the noise approaches 1/3 of that value in superlattices whose quantum wells are strongly coupled. On the other hand, when the coupling is weak or when a strong electric field is applied to the superlattice, ...

It is shown that the confined impurity state of a semiconductor quantum well develops into an excited impurity band in the case of a superlattice. This is studied by following theoretically the transition from a single to a multiple quantum well or superlattice by exactly diagonalizing the three-dimensional Hamiltonian for a quantum well system with random impurities. Intersubband absorption ex...

We describe a limiting case when nonlinear dynamics of an ac-driven semiconductor superlattice in the miniband transport regime is governed by a periodically forced and damped pendulum. We find analytically the conditions for a transition to chaos, as well as the conditions for absence of chaosat any amplitude of ac drive. We also discuss fractional dc voltage states in a superlattice originati...