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Hall field-induced resistance oscillations in Ge/SiGe quantum wells

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-06-19 v1

Abstract

We report on a magnetotransport study in a high-mobility 2D hole gas hosted in a pure Ge/SiGe quantum well subject to dc electric fields and high frequency microwave radiation. We find that under applied dc bias the differential resistivity exhibits a pronounced maximum at a magnetic field which increases linearly with the applied current. We associate this maximum with the fundamental peak of Hall field-induced resistance oscillations (HIRO) which are known to occur in 2D electron gases in GaAs/AlGaAs systems. After taking into account the Dingle factor correction, we find that the position of the HIRO peak is well described by the hole effective mass m0.09m0m^\star \approx 0.09\,m_0, obtained from microwave photoresistance in the same sample.

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@article{arxiv.1405.1093,
  title  = {Hall field-induced resistance oscillations in Ge/SiGe quantum wells},
  author = {Q. Shi and M. A. Zudov and O. A. Mironov and D. R. Leadley},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.1093},
  year   = {2015}
}