Elliptic vector loci of average electron velocity of electron swarm in constant-collision-frequency model gas under ac electric and dc magnetic fields crossed at arbitrary angles

Peculiar Hot Electron Effects in Crossed Electric and Magnetic Fields

Hot carrier effects expected (in some cases observed) in crossed electric (both static and microwave) and magnetic (not quantum) fields are surveyed. The case that the carrieroptical phonon interaction is strong compared with the other scattering processes is of main concern. In static electric fields, the principal effect is the carrier accumulation in a special region of the momentum space wh...

Measurement of Electron Transport in Liquid Argon in Crossed Electric and Magnetic Fields

We report on a measurement of excess electron drift properties in liquid argon in the presence of crossed electric and magnetic fields. The electric field strength was varied between 6 and 110 V/cm. Using a superconducting solenoid magnetic field strengths up to 5 T were achieved. The mag_netic field 8 was oriented perpendicular to the electric field E and the components of the drift velocity G...

Electron dynamics in superlattices subject to crossed magnetic and electric fields

The motion of charge particles in a superlattice structure subject to the crossed magnetic and electric fields, both applied in the in-plane direction, is discussed with respect to the novel type of terahertz oscillations suggested recently, [M. Orlita, R. Grill, L. Smrčka, M. Zvára, Phys. Rev. B 74 (2006) 125312]. The effects of the finite size of the superlattice is considered in comparison w...

Electron acceleration by strong DC electric fields in extragalactic jets

Electron acceleration by fast magnetic reconnection in extragalactic jets is considered. A significant threedimensional magnetic field is assumed in the reconnecting current sheet where the particles are accelerated by the DC electric field. The character of electron orbits in the sheet is controled by the magnetic field that determines, in particular, the electron acceleration lengths < 10−2 p...

Conventional Transmission Electron Microscope Observation of Electric and Magnetic Fields