• DocumentCode
    985512
  • Title

    A study of interband tunneling under nonuniform electric field

  • Author

    Chakraborty, Paritosh Kumar

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Commun. Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol., Kharagpur, India
  • Volume
    40
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1993
  • fDate
    1/1/1993 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    214
  • Lastpage
    219
  • Abstract
    An attempt is made to find the interband funneling rate in semiconductor devices (such as MOSFET, p-n tunnel diodes, etc.) in the presence of an electric field where the electric field in the tunneling region varies linearly with the space coordinate. The analysis offers interband tunneling current for a two-band, single-electron model using crystal momentum representation techniques. The evaluation of tunneling rate is more general than that recently reported by M. Takayanagi and S. Iwabuchi (1991)
  • Keywords
    electric fields; semiconductor device models; tunnelling; MOSFET; crystal momentum representation; electric field; interband tunneling; nonuniform electric field; p-n tunnel diodes; semiconductor devices; single-electron model; tunneling current; tunneling rate; two-band model; Breakdown voltage; Differential equations; FETs; MOSFET circuits; Nonuniform electric fields; Schrodinger equation; Semiconductor devices; Semiconductor diodes; Tunneling; Wave functions;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electron Devices, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9383
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/16.249446
  • Filename
    249446