Resonant tunneling diodes: models and properties

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 641-660

  Sun, Jian Ping ^a   Haddad, George I ^a,b   Mazumder, Pinaki ^a,c   Schulman, Joel N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c URL Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

Nanoelectronics; Quantum theory; Quantum wells; Resonant tunneling devices; Semiconductor device modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000756513     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.663541     Document Type: Article

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