Publication: Wave fronts may move upstream in semiconductor superlattices
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2000
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American Physical Society
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In weakly coupled, current biased, doped semiconductor superlattices. domain walls may move upstream against the flow of electrons. For appropriate doping values, a domain wall separating two electric-field domains moves downstream below a first critical current, it remains stationary between this value and a second critical current, and then moves upstream above. These conclusions are reached by using a comparison principle to analyze a discrete drift-diffusion model, and validated by numerical simulations. Possible experimental realizations are suggested.