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We have studied the generation of acoustic phonons in GaAs/AlGaAs double barrier resonant tunnelling structures using fast pulses. The TA phonons arose primarily from decay and down-conversion of cascades of plasmon-phonon coupled modes, whilst LA phonons were emitted directly by the heated Fermi gas in the collector. Emission was asymmetric with respect to direction of carrier tunnelling due to enhanced...