Professor Serge Luryi

Fall 1998 ESE 511 Solid State Electronics

Lecture 11 Content


 

Lect 11 

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Chapter 7: Novel transistor structures

Transistor principles: FET and PET
Speed limitations (ideal devices)
Charge Injection Transistor (CHINT)
Ballistic and hot-electron transistors
Reals space transfer (RST)
Real space transfer transistors
Hot electron instabilities
Speed limitations of CHINT
Symmetry and logic
Light emitting RST devices
 



Book: Chapter 7

Reviews:

S. Luryi and M. Mastrapasqua, "Light-emitting logic devices based on real space transfer in complementary InGaAs/InAlAs heterostructures", in "Negative Differential Resistance and Instabilities in 2D Semiconductors", ed. by N. Balkan, B. K. Ridley, and A. J. Vickers, NATO ASI Series [Physics] B 307, pp. 53-82, Plenum Press (New York 1993)
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S. Luryi, "Hot electrons in semiconductor devices", in Hot Electrons in Semiconductors, ed by N. Balkan, (Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-850058-0) pp. 385-427 (1998) 
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Book

M. S. Shur, Physics of semiconductor devices, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs (1990).


 

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