Shot noise suppression in quasi-one-dimensional field-effect transistors

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2137-2143

  Betti, Alessandro ^a   Fiori, Gianluca ^a   Iannaccone, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Carbon nanotube (CNT) transistors; Field effect transistors (FETs); Nanowire transistors; Shot noise

Indexed keywords

COMBINED EFFECT; COULOMB REPULSIONS; FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTORS (FETS); INJECTED ELECTRONS; LANDAUER; MONTE CARLO PROCEDURES; NANOWIRE TRANSISTORS; NON-EQUILIBRIUM GREEN'S FUNCTION; NOVEL METHODS; PAULI EXCLUSION; QUASI-ONE-DIMENSIONAL; SECOND QUANTIZATION; SELF-CONSISTENT SOLUTION; SHOT NOISE SUPPRESSION; SILICON NANOWIRES; STATISTICAL APPROACH; STRONG INVERSION; TRANSPORT EQUATION;

CARBON NANOTUBES; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTRIC WIRE; GREEN'S FUNCTION; MESFET DEVICES; NANOWIRES; SHOT NOISE; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS;

EID: 69549114287     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2009.2026512     Document Type: Article

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