PICOSECOND-SWITCHING TIME OF IN0.53GA0.47AS/ALAS RESONANT-TUNNELING DIODES MEASURED BY ELECTROOPTIC SAMPLING TECHNIQUE

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SHIMIZU, N
NAGATSUMA, T
SHINAGAWA, M
WAHO, T
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[1] NTT LSI Laboratories
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10.1109/55.790729
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
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To demonstrate picosecond-switching time for In0.53Ga0.47As/AlAs resonant-tunneling diodes (RTD's), we fabricated RTD's with various barrier widths and measured their switching times using electro-optic sampling technique specially arranged for RTD's with high current density. For an RTD having the barrier width of 1.4 nm with the peak current density of 4.5 x 10(5) A/cm(2) and peak-to-valley ratio of 3.9, the switching time of 2.2 ps has been observed.
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