Interface roughness, polar optical phonons, and the valley current of a resonant tunneling diode

Superlattices and Microstructures

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 279-285

  Lake, R ^a   Klimeck, G ^a   Bowen, R C ^a   Fernando, C ^a   Moise, T ^a   Kao, Y C ^a   Leng, M ^b  

^a TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTRIC CURRENT MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); LIGHT SCATTERING; PHONONS; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

INTERFACE ROUGHNESS; OPTICAL PHONON SCATTERING; POLAR OPTICAL PHONON; RESONANT TUNNELING DIODE; VALLEY CURRENT;

TUNNEL DIODES;

EID: 0029766290     PISSN: 07496036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/spmi.1996.0079     Document Type: Article

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