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Results of experiments of the 4 mm gap semi-insulating(SI) GaAs photoconductive switch triggered by 1064 nm, 1.0 mJ pulse laser showed the nonlinear mode when the bias field was 3800 V. Under the same bias electric field and trigger light energy conditions, the switch outputs stably nonlinear electrical pulses, and the switch surface injury mark is caused by filamentation after 1500 times triggering. Analysis shows that under given conditions of trigger energy and electric field, two transient thermal effects occur in the switch chip, namely the thermal relaxation and photoactivated charge domain-phonon drag, respectively. Thermal relaxation time is shortened to the order of picoseconds or subpicoseconds, thermal relaxation process leads to the thermal conduction relaxation. When photoactivated charge domain moves at 107cm/s speed from cathode to anode, switch chip transient temperature makes relaxation oscillations owing to these effects, and the rapid increase of temperature in the chip is constrained. Photoactivated charge domain-phonon drag effect transmits in the direction of the dislocation movement, the temperature in mobile region increases when the flow of thermal energy carried by the phonons was concentrated in the movement plane, the injury of filamentation is produced by superposition and cumulation of mobile tracks.
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Keywords:
- SI-GaAs photoconductive switch /
- thermal relaxation effect /
- photoactivated charge domain-phonon drag effect /
- filamentation
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[1] Loubrie G M, Zutavem F J, Baca A G, Hjalmarson H P, Plut T A, Helgeson W D, Malley W O, Ruebush M H, Brown D J 1997 IEEE Trans. Plasma Science 25 124
[2] Islam N E, Schamiloglu E, Fledderman B 1998 Appl. Phys. Lett. 73 1988
[3] Shi W, Tian L Q 2006 Appl. Phys. Lett 89 202103
[4] Jia W L, Ji W L, Shi W 2007 Acta Phys. Sin. 56 2042 ( in Chinese) [贾婉丽、纪卫莉、施 卫 2007 56 2042]
[5] Shi W, Wang X M, Hou L, Xu Ming, Liu Zheng 2008 Acta Phys. Sin. 57 6816 (in Chinese ) [施 卫、王馨梅、侯 磊、徐 明、刘 铮 2008 57 6816]
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[7] Liang L, Yu Y H, Peng Y B 2008 Chin. Phys. B 17 2627
[8] Xu X J, Chen S W, Xu H H, Sun Y 2009 Chin. Phys. B 18 3900
[9] Shi W, Zhang X B, Li Q 2002 China. Phys. Lett .19 351
[10] Shi W, Tian L Q 2004 Chinese Journal of Semiconductor 25 691 (in Chinese) [施 卫、田立强 2004 半导体学报 25 691]
[11] Shi W, Tian L Q, Liu Z, Zhang L Q, Zhang Z Z 2008 Appl. Phys. Lett. 92 043511
[12] Li J X, Zhang M J, Niu S X and Wang Y C 2008 Chin. Phys. B 17 4516
[13] Liu Y M, Yu Z Y, Ren X M 2009 Chin. Phys. B 18 881
[14] Shah. J, 1978 Solid-State Electron 21 43
[15] Liu J 2001 Micro/Nano-scale Heat Transfer (Beijing: Science Press) p 208 (in Chinese) [刘 静 2001 微米/纳米尺度传热学 (北京:科学出版社) 第208页]
[16] Albert M T Kim, 2001 Ph. D. Dissertation (Massachusetts: Harvard University)
[17] Herring C, Geballe T H, Kunzler J E 1954 Phys. Rev. 94 279
[18] Herring C 1954 Phy. Rev. 92 1163
[19] Herring C 1954 Phy. Rev. 92 857
[20] Cheng Y S, Zhou P Y, Feng Y Q 1996 Physical effect and applications (Tianjin: Tianjin university press) p161 (in Chinese) [陈宜生、周佩瑶、冯艳全 1996 物理效应及其应用 (天津:天津大学出版社) 第161页]
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[22] Shi W 2001 Chinese Journal of Semiconductors 22 1481
[23] Shi W, Dai H Y, Sun X W 2003 Chinese Optics Letters 1 553
[24] Tian L Q, Shi W 2008 J. Appl. Phys. 103 124512
[25] Shi W, Qu G H, Xu M, Xue H, Ji W L, Zhang L, Tian L Q 2009 Appl. Phys. Lett. 94 072110
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[27] Shah J, Leheny R F, Wiegmann W 1977 Phys. Rev. B 16 1577
[28] Zutavern F J, Loubriel G M, Mclaughling D L 1992 Proc. SPIE 1632 152
[29] Kambour K, Kang S, Myles C W, Hjalmarson H P 2000 IEEE Tran. Plasma Science 28 1497
[30] Zutavern F J, Loubriel G M, O’Malley M W, Helgeson W D, Mclaughlin D L 1992 IEEE Power Modulator Symposium, Conference Record of the Twentieth, 23—25 Jun 1992 p305
[31] Peierls R 1940 Proc. Phys. Soc. London 52 34
[32] Nabarro F R N 1947 Proc. Phys. Soc. London 59 256
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