Negative differential resistances in graphene double barrier resonant tunneling diodes

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Song, Yu ^a   Wu, Han Chun ^b   Guo, Yong ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUCIAL PARAMETERS; DIRAC FERMIONS; DOUBLE BARRIERS; NEGATIVE DIFFERENTIAL RESISTANCES; OPERATION WINDOW; PEAK TO VALLEY CURRENT RATIO; STRUCTURAL PARAMETER; TUNABLE BAND-GAP;

GRAPHENE; NEGATIVE RESISTANCE;

RESONANT TUNNELING DIODES;

EID: 84875145844     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4794952     Document Type: Article

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