Hot-electron transistors for terahertz operation based on two-dimensional crystal heterostructures

Physical Review Applied

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Kong, Byoung Don ^a,b   Jin, Zhenghe ^a   Kim, Ki Wook ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUTOFF FREQUENCY; ELECTRON DEVICES;

ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS; BASE-COLLECTOR JUNCTIONS; HOT ELECTRON TRANSISTORS; NON EQUILIBRIUM GREEN'S FUNCTION METHOD; TECHNOLOGICAL PATHWAYS; TRANSISTOR CHARACTERISTICS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D) CRYSTALS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CRYSTALS;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 84937820481     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23317019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.2.054006     Document Type: Article

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