QUANTUM DISTRIBUTED MODEL OF THE RESONANT-TUNNELING TRANSISTOR

被引:4
作者
TANIYAMA, H
TOMIZAWA, M
YOSHII, A
机构
[1] NTT LSI Labs., Atsugi City Kanagawa Prefecture
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10.1109/16.275212
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
Two-dimensional simulation is crucial in the analysis of the transport characteristics of a resonant tunneling transistor that has a base electrode attached to the well region of a double barrier structure because of the transistor's two-dimensional heterogeneousness. We propose a novel numerical model of the resonant tunneling transistor that includes two-dimensional potential, distribution and two dimensional spatial current distribution. By using the mode, it is found that the transistor's I-V characteristics are strongly dependent on its internal well resistance with the present model.
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页码:294 / 298
页数:5
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