Abstract
Periodic structure is observed in the tunneling current from heavily doped () GaAs through into lightly doped () GaAs at 1.6 K in magnetic fields large enough for magnetic freezeout of electrons to occur in the -GaAs. Sixteen periods are observed for . The phase and the voltage periodicity, 0.036 V, are independent of magnetic field. The mechanism appears to involve LO-phonon emission events by ballistic electrons. This is the first observation of sequential single-phonon emission observed in electron transport.
- Received 15 February 1984
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.52.2053
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