The effects of scattering on current‐voltage characteristics, transient response, and particle trajectories in the numerical simulation of resonant tunneling diodes
作者:
K. L. Jensen,
F. A. Buot,
期刊:
Journal of Applied Physics
(AIP Available online 1990)
卷期:
Volume 67,
issue 12
页码: 7602-7607
ISSN:0021-8979
年代: 1990
DOI:10.1063/1.345828
出版商: AIP
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
The relaxation‐time approximation is used in the numerical simulation of the Wigner distribution function to incorporate scattering. The effects within the constant relaxation‐time approximation are (a) a decrease in the peak‐to‐valley ratio of the current‐voltage curve; (b) a reduction in the oscillations of the Wigner distribution function, especially at resonance bias; (c) a suppression of the decay time of current oscillations after a sudden bias shift, indicating a smaller switching time than for no scattering; (d) a degradation in the resonant tunneling trajectories towards the characteristics of nonresonant trajectories; (e) a decrease in the spatial range of the quantum influences near resonance; and (f) ballistic transport sets in [i.e., the mean free path of the electrons is greater than the barrier region (110 A˚)] for temperatures less than 74 K.
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