1. Monte Carlo simulation of the generation of terahertz radiation in GaN
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J. C. Vaissière, Luca Varani, Luca Reggiani, Pavel Shiktorov, Viktoras Gružinskis, Jian Hui Zhao, E. Starikov, Semiconductor Physics Institute (Vilnius), Vilnius University [Vilnius], Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Innovazione and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia, Universita` di Lecce, Centre d'Electronique et de Micro-optoélectronique de Montpellier (CEM2), Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and SiCLAB, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and CAIP Center, Rutgers University
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Materials science ,Phonon ,Terahertz radiation ,Monte Carlo method ,General Physics and Astronomy ,02 engineering and technology ,7. Clean energy ,01 natural sciences ,[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-COMP-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Computational Physics [physics.comp-ph] ,Condensed Matter::Materials Science ,Electric field ,0103 physical sciences ,[PHYS.COND]Physics [physics]/Condensed Matter [cond-mat] ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,Wurtzite crystal structure ,010302 applied physics ,Condensed matter physics ,business.industry ,Wide-bandgap semiconductor ,Resonance ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,[SPI.TRON]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Electronics ,[PHYS.COND.CM-MS]Physics [physics]/Condensed Matter [cond-mat]/Materials Science [cond-mat.mtrl-sci] ,Optoelectronics ,0210 nano-technology ,business ,Microwave - Abstract
The conditions for microwave power generation at low temperatures under optical phonon emission are analyzed by Monte Carlo simulations of both small- and large-signal responses in bulk zinc blende and wurtzite GaN. As a result of the high optical phonon energy and the strong interaction of electrons with optical phonons in GaN a general improvement on the transit-time resonance and a considerable increase in the maximum generation frequency and power can be achieved in comparison to the widely studied III–V materials such as GaAs and InP. A dynamic negative differential mobility caused by transit-time resonance occurs in a wide frequency range of about 0.05–3 THz and persists in the THz frequency range up to the liquid nitrogen temperature with doping levels up to about 5×1016 cm−3. The efficiency of the amplification and generation is found to depend nonmonotonously on static and microwave electric field amplitudes, generation frequency, and doping level so that for each generation frequency there exist...
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- 2001