Suppressed Auger scattering and tunable light emission of Landau-quantized massless Kane electrons

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41566-019-0496-1" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41566-019-0496-1</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Suppressed Auger scattering and tunable light emission of Landau-quantized massless Kane electrons

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The Landau level laser was proposed long ago as a unique source of monochromatic radiation that would be widely tunable in the THz and infrared spectral ranges using a magnetic field. However, despite many efforts, this appealing concept never progressed to the design of a reliable device. This is because of the efficient Auger scattering of Landau-quantized electrons, an intrinsic non-radiative recombination channel that eventually gains over cyclotron emission in all materials studied so far (conventional semiconductors with parabolic bands, but also in graphene with massless electrons). Auger processes are favoured in these systems because the Landau levels (or their subsets) are equally spaced in energy. Here, we show that this scheme does not apply to massless Kane electrons in gapless HgCdTe, where undesirable Auger scattering is strongly suppressed and sizeable cyclotron emission is observed. The gapless HgCdTe thus appears as a material of choice for future Landau level lasers.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Suppressed Auger scattering and tunable light emission of Landau-quantized massless Kane electrons

Popis výsledku anglicky

The Landau level laser was proposed long ago as a unique source of monochromatic radiation that would be widely tunable in the THz and infrared spectral ranges using a magnetic field. However, despite many efforts, this appealing concept never progressed to the design of a reliable device. This is because of the efficient Auger scattering of Landau-quantized electrons, an intrinsic non-radiative recombination channel that eventually gains over cyclotron emission in all materials studied so far (conventional semiconductors with parabolic bands, but also in graphene with massless electrons). Auger processes are favoured in these systems because the Landau levels (or their subsets) are equally spaced in energy. Here, we show that this scheme does not apply to massless Kane electrons in gapless HgCdTe, where undesirable Auger scattering is strongly suppressed and sizeable cyclotron emission is observed. The gapless HgCdTe thus appears as a material of choice for future Landau level lasers.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10302 - Condensed matter physics (including formerly solid state physics, supercond.)

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2019

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Nature Photonics

ISSN

1749-4885

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

13

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

11

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

6

Strana od-do

783-788

Kód UT WoS článku

000493317900014

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85070802821