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Thermopower of a Two-Dimensional Semimetal in a HgTe Quantum Well
摘要： The thermopower in a two-dimensional semimetal existing in HgTe quantum wells 18–21 nm thick has been studied experimentally and theoretically for the first time. It has been found theoretically and experimentally that the thermopower has two components—diffusion and phonon-drag—and that the second component is several times larger than the first. It has been concluded that the electron–hole scattering plays an important role in both mechanisms of the thermopower.
关键词： diffusion,thermopower,HgTe quantum wells,two-dimensional semimetal,phonon-drag,electron–hole scattering
更新于2025-09-09 09:28:46
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Sign-alternating photoconductivity and magnetoresistance oscillations induced by terahertz radiation in HgTe quantum wells
摘要： We report on the observation of terahertz radiation induced photoconductivity and of terahertz analog of the microwave-induced resistance oscillations (MIRO) in HgTe-based quantum well (QW) structures of different width. The MIRO-like effect has been detected in QWs of 20 nm thickness with inverted band structure and a rather low mobility of about 3 × 105 cm2/V s. In a number of other structures with QW widths ranging from 5 to 20 nm and lower mobility we observed an unconventional nonoscillatory photoconductivity signal which changes its sign upon magnetic ?eld increase. This effect was observed in structures characterized by both normal and inverted band ordering, as well as in QWs with critical thickness and linear dispersion. In samples having Hall bar and Corbino geometries an increase of the magnetic ?eld resulted in a single and double change of the sign of the photoresponse, respectively. We show that within the bolometric mechanism of the photoresponse these unusual features imply a nonmonotonic behavior of the transport scattering rate, which should decrease (increase) with temperature for magnetic ?elds below (above) the certain value. This behavior is found to be consistent with the results of dark transport measurements of magnetoresistivity at different sample temperatures. Our experiments demonstrate that photoconductivity is a very sensitive probe of the temperature variations of the transport characteristics, even those that are hardly detectable using standard transport measurements.
关键词： HgTe quantum wells,terahertz radiation,magnetoresistance oscillations,bolometric mechanism,photoconductivity
更新于2025-09-04 15:30:14