Applied bias slewing in transient wigner function simulation of resonant tunneling diodes

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 733-737

  Biegel, Bryan A ^a   Plummer, James D ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; QUANTUM THEORY; RESONANCE; SWITCHING FUNCTIONS; TRANSIENTS;

WIGNER FUNCTIONS;

TUNNEL DIODES;

EID: 0031145613     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.568033     Document Type: Article

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