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  • Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 1,
  • Issue 9,
  • pp. 553-555
  • (2003)

Photon-activated charge domain in high-gain photoconductive switches

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Abstract

We report our experimental observation of charge domain oscillation in semi-insulating GaAs photoconductive semiconductor switches (PCSSs). The high-gain PCSS is intrinsically a photon-activated charge domain device. It is the photon-activated carriers that satisfy the requirement of charge domain formation on carrier concentration and device length product of 10^(12) cm^(-2). We also show that, because of the repeated process of domain formation, the domain travels with a compromised speed of electron saturation velocity and the speed of light. As a result, the transit time of charge domains in PCSS is much shorter than that of traditional Gunn domains.

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