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Landau Level Broadening and Van Hove Singularities in Lateral Surface Superlattices

Weiss, Dieter and Klitzing, Klaus von and Ploog, K. and Weimann, G. (1990) Landau Level Broadening and Van Hove Singularities in Lateral Surface Superlattices. Surface Science 229, pp. 88-91.

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Abstract

A lateral periodic submicrometer potential in one direction superimposed on a two- dimensional electron gas (2DEG) lifts the degeneracy of the Landau levels (LL $\'$ s) and leads to modulation broadened Landau bands. Due to the new band structure, singularities in the density of states (DOS) are expected which should result in a double peaked structure of the LL $\'$ s (Van Hove singularities). Increasing the modulation amplitude of the periodic potential we observe a splitting of the Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) maxima in magnetoresistance measurements which we believe to be the first observation of van Hove singularities in such modulated systems. In addition we report magnetotransport experiments in a weak two-dimensional periodic potential