Physics-based RTD current-voltage equation

IEEE Electron Device Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 220-222

  Schulman, J N ^b   De Los Santos, H J ^a,c   Chow, D H ^b  

^a IEEE

^b Hughes Aircraft Co   (United States)

^c BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; CURVE FITTING; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEGATIVE RESISTANCE; QUANTUM THEORY;

EMPIRICAL FITTING; QUANTUM TUNNELING; RESONANT TUNNELING DIODES;

TUNNEL DIODES;

EID: 0030151465     PISSN: 07413106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/55.491835     Document Type: Article

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