CROSS-OVER INSTABILITY DURING IMPURITY AVALANCHE BREAKDOWN IN SEMICONDUCTORS UNDER LONGITUDINAL MAGNETIC-FIELD

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作者
AOKI, K
机构
[1] Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kobe University, Kobe, 657, Rokkodai, Nada
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10.1016/0038-1098(91)90433-V
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O469 [凝聚态物理学];
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070205 ;
摘要
A model has been presented for cross-over instability and chaos during impurity avalanche breakdown observed in n-GaAs under longitudinal magnetic field. The model has been based on generation-recombination process of impact-ionized carriers under the longitudinal magnetic fields. Spatially local magnetoresistance effect for a helically distorted current filament has been included as a truncated form in the energy balance equation. As a function of the magnetic field intensity, simulant J-E characteristics reproduce excellently the experimentally observed cross-over instability. Furthermore, an example of the chaotic current oscillations has been demonstrated numerically.
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