• DocumentCode
    1040420
  • Title

    Static negative resistance in Gunn effect materials with field-dependent carrier diffusion

  • Author

    Hauge, P.S.

  • Volume
    18
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    1971
  • fDate
    6/1/1971 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    390
  • Lastpage
    391
  • Abstract
    A numerical study of the equations governing the electric field in Gunn effect materials under constant bias shows that static negative resistance (SNR) can occur as a bulk effect when certain conditions regarding carrier diffusion are satisfied. This result places an important limitation on Shockley´s positive conductance theorem in that a completely general extension of the theorem to cases where diffusion is field dependent cannot exist.
  • Keywords
    Circuits; Conducting materials; Electric resistance; Geometry; Gunn devices; Impurities; Mathematical analysis; Permittivity; Poisson equations; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electron Devices, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9383
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/T-ED.1971.17209
  • Filename
    1476531