EXPERIMENTAL REALIZATION OF A NEW TRANSISTOR

被引:3
作者
CHEN, J
YANG, CH
WILSON, RA
机构
[1] UNIV MARYLAND,DEPT ELECT ENGN,COLL PK,MD 20742
[2] TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INC,CENT RES LAB,TECH STAFF,DALLAS,TX 75265
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10.1109/16.182499
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
We report on the fabrication and characteristics of a unipolar, three-terminal, resonant-tunneling transistor. The operating principle of this new transistor is based on the fact that the quantum mechanical resonant-tunneling probability of hot electrons between the emitter and the collector is switched almost completely on and off, when either the base or the collector bias is swept. The emitter injects hot electrons to the second lowest subband of a thin (100 angstrom in this work) GaAs quantum well. Subsequently, the hot electrons will either resonantly tunnel to the collector, or relax to the lowest subband and contribute to the base current. As a result of resonant transmission, at 77 K the current-voltage characteristics of the new transistor display negative differential resistance with extremely large (4691) peak-to-valley ratio. Furthermore, when biased near resonance, a maximum dc current gain of approximately 1.2 and a maximum ac current gain of approximately 11.9 were observed. The first use of a new ''tunneling-in and tunneling-out'' scheme in contacting a thin quantum well is also demonstrated.
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页数:6
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