Study on the current bistability and hysteresis in resonant-tunneling structures

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 342, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 272-277

  Dai, Zhenhong ^a,b   Ni, Jun ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b YANTAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Electron transport; Non equilibrium; Wigner function

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; HYSTERESIS; POISSON EQUATION; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT; FORWARD-AND-BACKWARD; NON EQUILIBRIUM; NON-EQUILIBRIUM ELECTRONS; RESONANT TUNNELING DEVICE; RESONANT TUNNELING STRUCTURE; SELF-CONSISTENT SOLUTION; WIGNER FUNCTIONS;

RESONANT TUNNELING;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HYSTERESIS; KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TIME;

EID: 20544450182     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2005.05.066     Document Type: Article

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