SiC Natural and Artificial Superlattices for the Implementation of the Bloch Oscillation Process: A Comparative Analysis

Abstract:

Bloch oscillations in semiconductors have been studied for several decades. Oscillations were observed in artificial superlattices based on AlGaAs-GaAs proposed Esaki and Tsu, and the natural superlattice based on superstructures SiC. In this paper we considers some base properties of the SiC natural superlattices that are the ground for the Bloch oscillations existence in these materials and attract attention to the some main disadvantages of the artificial superlattices. The experimental detection of the Bloch oscillation-dependent physical effects in semiconductors has been an actual problem over decades.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volume 1004)
• Pages: 256-264
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.1004.256
• Online since: July 2020
• Authors: Vladimir Ilich Sankin*, Alexey G. Petrov, Pavel P. Shkrebiy, Olga P. Kazarova, Alexander A. Lebedev
• Keywords: Bloch Oscillations, Miniband, Natural Superlattice, Wannier-Stark Localization

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