Circuit and application aspects of tunnelling devices in a MOBILE configuration

International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 83-103

  Glosekotter P ^a   Pacha, C ^a,b   Goser, K F ^a   Prost, W ^c   Kim, S O ^c,d   Van Husen, H ^c   Reimann, T ^c   Tegude, F J ^c  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR HÖCHSTFREQUENZTECHNIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

MOBILE; RTBT; RTD; Tunnelling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LOGIC DEVICES; RESONANT TUNNELING; TRANSCONDUCTANCE;

RESONANT TUNNELLING DEVICES (RTD);

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0037265552     PISSN: 00989886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cta.227     Document Type: Article

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