M. Helm et al., Continuum Wannier-Stark ladders strongly coupled by Zener resonances in semiconductor superlattices, PHYS REV L, 82(15), 1999, pp. 3120-3123
We report the first experiment which relates electronic transport and intra
band optical absorption in a biased superlattice. Wannier-Stark ladders far
in the continuum and strongly coupled by Zener resonances are observed in
an n-type GaAs/AlGaAs superlattice using infrared spectroscopy. Additional
transport measurements reveal the formation of electric-field domains, with
electrons tunneling resonantly to the next-nearest superlattice period.