Current Instabilities under Millimeter and Submillimeter Electromagnetic Waves Heating in Semiconductors with Negative Differential Conductivity

Author

Gurevich, Yu.G. ; Logvinov, G.N.

Author_Institution

Dept. de Fis., Centro de Investig. y Estudios Av. delIPN, Mexico

Volume

1

fYear

2007

fDate

25-30 June 2007

Firstpage

345

Lastpage

347

Abstract

In this article, the formation of static negative differential conductance (NDC) under simultaneous electron gas heating by high-frequency (HF) and static electric fields is studied. As in this case, the heating electromagnetic wave has a pronounced effect on appearance of NDC caused by the overheating mechanisms and on the type of the static current-voltage characteristic (CVC), as a whole.

Keywords

plasma instability; plasma kinetic theory; plasma radiofrequency heating; plasma simulation; plasma temperature; plasma transport processes; semiconductor plasma; current instability; electromagnetic wave heating; electron gas heating; high-frequency heating; negative differential conductance; overheating mechanisms; semiconductor plasma; static current-voltage characteristic; Conductivity; Electromagnetic heating; Electromagnetic scattering; Electrons; Equations; Hafnium; Kinetic theory; Plasma temperature; Tellurium; Temperature dependence;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Physics and Engineering of Microwaves, Millimeter and Submillimeter Waves and Workshop on Terahertz Technologies, 2007. MSMW '07. The Sixth International Kharkov Symposium on

Conference_Location

Kharkov

Print_ISBN

1-4244-1237-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MSMW.2007.4294657

Filename

4294657