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Spectra of current oscillations caused by the transport of the electron domains induced by an applied voltage in a semiconductor superlattice with the absence and presence of the tilted magnetic field are numerically investigated with allowance for the interband tunneling.
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Balanov, A.G., Koronovskii, A.A., Moskalenko, O.I. et al. Effect of interminiband tunneling on complex processes in a semiconductor superlattice. Phys. Wave Phen. 23, 28–34 (2015). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1541308X15010045
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