(1) Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii pr. 53, Moscow, 119991, Russia;(2) Ioffe Physicotechnical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Politekhnicheskaya ul. 26, St. Petersburg, 194021, Russia
Abstract:
It is shown that the self-sustained oscillations observed in weakly coupled GaAs/AlGaAs superlattices result from the superposition of sinusoidal oscillations of several coupled oscillators. Each oscillator is a single-barrier resonant tunneling diode. The coupled oscillators form an expanded boundary of an electric-field domain under conditions of negative differential conductance.