Emergence of current branches in a series array of negative differential resistance circuit elements

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Xu, Huidong ^a   Teitsworth, Stephen W ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; APPLIED VOLTAGES; CIRCUIT ELEMENTS; CURRENT BRANCH; CURRENT VOLTAGE CURVE; ELEMENT PROPERTIES; FAST-RAMPING; INHOMOGENEITIES; NEGATIVE DIFFERENTIAL RESISTANCES; NON-UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION; NONLINEAR ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT; RAMPING RATE; RATE OF CHANGE; SERIES ARRAY;

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; NEGATIVE RESISTANCE;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS;

EID: 77956308723     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3475988     Document Type: Conference Paper

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