Overview

The past three decades have been a period where useful current and voltage instabilities in solids have progressed from exciting research problems to a wide variety of commercially available devices. Materials and electronics research has led to devices such as the tunnel (Esaki) diode, transferred electron (Gunn) diode, avalanche diodes, real-space transfer devices, and the like. These structures have proven to be very important in the generation, amplification, switching, and processing of microwave signals up to frequencies exceeding 100 GHz. In this treatise we focus on a detailed theoretical understanding of devices of the kind that can be made unstable against circuit oscillations, large amplitude switching events, and in some cases, internal rearrangement of the electric field or current density distribution. The book is aimed at the semiconductor device physicist, engineer, and graduate student. A knowledge of solid state physics on an elementary or introductory level is assumed. Furthermore, we have geared the book to device engineers and physicists desirous of obtaining an understanding substantially deeper than that associated with a small signal equivalent circuit approach. We focus on both analytical and numerical treatment of specific device problems, concerning ourselves with the mechanism that determines the constitutive relation governing the device, the boundary conditions (contact effects), and the effect of the local circuit environment.

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Author:   Harold L. Grubin ,  V.V. Mitin ,  E. Schöll ,  M.P. Shaw
Publisher:   Springer Science+Business Media
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Edition:   1992 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   1.940kg
ISBN:  

9780306437885

ISBN 10:   0306437880
Pages:   468
Publication Date:   31 January 1992
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Stability.- 3. Tunnel Diodes.- 4. The Avalanche Diode.- 5. The Gunn Diode.- 6. Superconducting Junctions.- 7. SNDC Multilayer Semiconductor Structures.- 8. Thermal and Electrothermal Instabilities.- List of Pertinent Symbols.- References.

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