Zener tunneling in semiconductors under nonuniform electric fields

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Vandenberghe, William ^a,b   Soŕe, Bart ^a   Magnus, Wim ^a,c   Groeseneken, Guido ^a,b  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

^b Katholieke Universiteit Leuven   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABRUPT P-N JUNCTION; HIGH ELECTRIC FIELDS; I - V CURVE; NANOMETER DIMENSIONS; NONUNIFORM ELECTRIC FIELD; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE PERFORMANCE; TUNNEL PROBABILITY; TWO-BAND MODEL; UNIFORM FIELDS; WKB APPROXIMATIONS; ZENER TUNNELING;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ENGINEERING EXHIBITIONS; PROBABILITY; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR JUNCTIONS; TUNNELING (EXCAVATION);

WIND TUNNELS;

EID: 77949704912     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3311550     Document Type: Article

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