EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF RESONANT INTERBAND TUNNEL-DIODE WITH ROOM-TEMPERATURE PEAK-TO-VALLEY CURRENT RATIO OVER 100

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DAY, DJ
YANG, RQ
LU, JA
XU, JM
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[1] UNIV TORONTO,DEPT ELECT ENGN,TORONTO M5S 1A4,ONTARIO,CANADA
[2] VARIAN ASSOCIATES INC,RES CTR,PALO ALTO,CA 94303
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10.1063/1.353231
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O59 [应用物理学];
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This letter reports a recent experiment on resonant interband tunneling (RIT) diodes and the measured room temperature peak-to-valley (P/V) current ratio of 104:1 which represents the highest P/V ratio ever reported in any tunneling device. The RIT diode studied in this work consists of an InGaAs/InAlAs double-quantum well system embedded in a pn junction structure grown on InP.
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