The Physics of Instabilities in Solid State Electron Devices

Harold L. Grubin, V.V. Mitin, E. Schöll, M.P. Shaw (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

468 Seiten

2013 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4899-2346-2 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Zusatzinfo	XII, 468 p.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie ► Analytische Chemie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Festkörperphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Thermodynamik
	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
	Technik ► Maschinenbau
ISBN-10	1-4899-2346-2 / 1489923462
ISBN-13	978-1-4899-2346-2 / 9781489923462
Zustand	Neuware