Investigation of AlGaAs/GaAs Superlattice-Emitter Resonant Tunneling Bipolar Transistor (SE-RTBT)

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 1992, Pages 2214-2219

  Liu, Wen Chua ^a   Lour, Wen Shiung ^a   Wang, Yeong Her ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; LOGIC CIRCUITS;

BASE-COLLECTOR JUNCTIONS; ELECTRON TUNNELING BARRIERS; EMITTER-BASE JUNCTION; HOLE REFLECTION BARRIERS; MULTIPLE DIFFERENTIAL NEGATIVE RESISTANCE; MULTIVALUED LOGIC CIRCUIT; SUPERLATTICE EMITTER;

SEMICONDUCTOR SUPERLATTICES;

EID: 0026940477     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.158790     Document Type: Article

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