Augmentation of SPICE for simulation of circuits containing resonant tunneling diodes

IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 39-50

  Bhattacharya, Mayukh ^b   Mazumder, Pinaki ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Circuit simulation; Convergence; Newton Raphson; Resonant tunneling diode; SPICE; Tunnel diode

Indexed keywords

NEGATIVE DIFFERENTIAL RESISTANCE (NDR); RESONANT TUNNELING DIODES; SOFTWARE PACKAGE SPICE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; LIMITERS; NEGATIVE RESISTANCE; RESONANT TUNNELING; TRANSIENTS;

TUNNEL DIODES;

EID: 0035063058     PISSN: 02780070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/43.905673     Document Type: Article

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