We have determined the efficiency of photoionization of Ge¯-DX state in GaAs as a function of photon energy. The optical ionization energy derived from the fitting is about 1.0 eV. It proves a large difference between optical and thermal ionization energies and confirms that for Ge-impurity, the broken-bond model and large lattice relaxation are valid and not the breathing mode with small lattice relaxation, resulting from the calculations presented for Ge-impurity in T.M. Schmidt, A. Fazzio, M.J. Caldas, Mater. Sci. Forum 196/201, 273 (1995).
We present the possibility of using magnetic field to enhance responsivity and to tune spectral range of far-infrared InSb detector (based on photoconductivity effect) beyond its standard range limited to about 30 cm^{-1}. We show that due to cyclotron resonance assisted transitions we can use it as a tunable detector working up to energies about 180 cm^{-1} (22 meV). We have used such a detector as a spectrometer for measurements of the Landau emission from GaAs emitter.
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