High Frequency Simulation of Resonant Tunneling Diodes

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 1994, Pages 1098-1111

  Liou, Wan Rone ^a   Roblin, Patrick ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; NEGATIVE RESISTANCE; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; RESONANT CIRCUITS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS;

NEGATIVE DIFFERENTIAL CONDUCTANCE REGION; POISSON EQUATIONS; QUANTUM SIMULATORS; RESONANT TUNNELING DIODES; SCHRODINGER EQUATIONS;

TUNNEL DIODES;

EID: 0028463722     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.293336     Document Type: Article

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