Resonance bands and resonating pairs: Theoretical fundamentals of resonant tunneling

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1080-1092

  Kato, Fumio ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

^e TOHOKU UNIVERSITY

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; QUANTUM THEORY; REFLECTION; RESONANCE; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTOR SUPERLATTICES; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

ONE DIMENSIONAL QUANTUM MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; RESONANT TUNNELING; TRANSFER MATRIX METHOD;

ELECTRON TUNNELING;

EID: 0030165937     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.502387     Document Type: Article

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