Reply to comment on 'Giant suppression of shot-noise in double barrier resonant...

• Author(s): Aleshkin, V. Ya ; Reggiani, L. ; Alkeev, N. V. ; Lyubchenko, V. E. ; Ironside, C. N. ; Figueiredo, J. M. L. ; Stanley, C. R.
• Date: 2004
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/1185
• Origin: Sapientia - Universidade do Algarve
• Subject(s): Resonant tunneling diode
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

Shot noise suppression below 1/2 of the full Poisson value in double barrier resonant diodes is confirmed to be a signature of coherent rather than sequential tunnelling transport. We reply to the arguments of the previous comment which dispute the above claim. We anticipate the development of a rigorous theory that improves previous approaches without contradicting the essential findings we recently reported (Aleshkin et al 2003 Semicond. Sci. Technol. 18 L35).