The negative differential conductivity and electric instabilities are found to appear in type-II InAs/AlSb superlattices. The origin of the nonlinear effects is discussed.
A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, Russian Ac. Sci., St. Petersburg, Russia
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