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P. Svoboda

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Photoluminescence rings in Corbino disk at quantizing magnetic fields

Spatially resolved photoluminescence of modulation doped AlGaAs/GaAs heterojunction was investigated in a sample of Corbino disk geometry subject to strong perpendicular magnetic fields. Significant spatial modulation of the photoluminescence was observed in form of one or more concentric rings which travelled across the sample when the magnetic field strength was varied. A topology of the observed structure excludes the possibility of being a trace of an external current. The effect is attributed to formation of compressible and incompressible stripes in a 2DEG density gradient across the sample.

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In-plane Magnetic Field Dependent Magnetoresistance of Gated Asymmetric Double Quantum Wells

We have investigated experimentally the magnetoresistance of strongly asymmetric double-wells. The structures were prepared by inserting a thin Al$_{0.3}$Ga$_{0.7}$As barrier into the GaAs buffer layer of a standard modulation-doped GaAs/Al$_{0.3}$Ga$_{0.7}$As heterostructure. The resulting double-well system consists of a nearly rectangular well and of a triangular well coupled by tunneling through the thin barrier. With a proper choice of the barrier parameters one can control the occupancy of the two wells and of the two lowest (bonding and antibonding) subbands. The electron properties can be further influenced by applying front- or back-gate voltage.

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Novel critical field in magneto-resistance oscillation of 2DEG in asymmetric GaAs/AlGaAs double wells measured as a function of the in-plane magnetic field

We have investigated the magnetoresistance of strongly asymmetric double-well structures formed by a thin AlGaAs barrier grown far from the interface in the GaAs buffer of standard heterostructures. In magnetic fields oriented parallel to the electron layers, the magnetoresistance exhibits an oscillation associated with the depopulation of the higher occupied subband and with the field-induced transition into a decoupled bilayer. In addition, the increasing field transfers electrons from the triangular to rectangular well and, at high enough field value, the triangular well is emptied. Consequently, the electronic system becomes a single layer which leads to a sharp step in the density of electron states and to an additional minimum in the magnetoresistance curve.

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Electron conduction within Landau level tails of medium-mobility GaAs / AlGaAs heterostructures

The temperature dependence of both components of the resistivity tensor $\varrho_{xx}(T)$ and $\varrho_{xy}(T)$ has been studied at T $\geq$ 4.2 K within IQHE plateaux around filling factors ν=2 and ν=4 of medium- -mobility GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures. In the middle of the mobility gap standard activated conductivity has been found with activation energies $Δ$ scaling well with $\hbarω_{c} / 2$ . At filling factors slightly below $ν$=2 another contribution adds to the activated conductivity at T $\leq$ 12 K. This additional contribution can be further enhanced at higher mesuring d.c. currents.We suggest, that it arises due to enhanced electric field assisted tunneling across potential barriers separating localized states within the bulk of the sample.This effect contributes to the backscattering across the sample leading to an enhanced longitudinal conductivity. The additional contribution to $σ_{xx}(T)$ can be reasonably well fitted to the formula for the variable range hopping in strong magnetic fields indicating that the hopping can persist even at temperatures well above 4.2K.

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