Long Journey into Tunneling

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 1974, Pages 825-831

  Esaki, Leo ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEGATIVE RESISTANCE;

PHYSICS - SOLID STATE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES - TUNNELING;

ELECTRONS;

EID: 0016069249     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/PROC.1974.9522     Document Type: Article

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