Theory of Band-to-Band Tunneling Under Nonuniform Electric Fields for Subbreakdown Leakage Currents

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1991, Pages 1425-1431

  Takayanagi, Mariko ^a   Iwabuchi, Shuichi ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS;

BAND-TO-BAND TUNNELING; NONUNIFORM ELECTRIC FIELDS; SUBBREAKDOWN LEAKAGE CURRENTS;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

EID: 0026169346     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.81635     Document Type: Article

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