%0 Journal Article
%T Active conductivity of plane two-barrier resonance tunnel structure as operating element of quantum cascade laser or detector
%A M.V. Tkach
%A Ju.O. Set
%A V.O. Matijek
%A O.M. Voitsekhivska
%J Condensed Matter Physics
%D 2011
%I Institute for Condensed Matter Physics
%X Within the model of rectangular potentials and different effective masses of electrons in different elements of plane two-barrier resonance tunnel structure there is developed a theory of spectral parameters of quasi-stationary states and active conductivity for the case of mono-energetic electronic current interacting with electromagnetic field. It is shown that the two-barrier resonance tunnel structure can be utilized as a separate or active element of quantum cascade laser or detector. For the experimentally studied In0.53Ga0.47As/In0.52Al0.48As nano-system it is established that the two-barrier resonance tunnel structure, in detector and laser regimes, optimally operates (with the biggest conductivity at the smallest exciting current) at the quantum transitions between the lowest quasi-stationary states.
%K resonance tunnel structure
%K conductivity
%K quantum laser
%K quantum detector
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.5488/CMP.14.23704