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Bistable gated bipolar device

Authors :
Alan Mathewson
Russell Duane
A. Concannon
Source :
IEEE Electron Device Letters. 24:661-663
Publication Year :
2003
Publisher :
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2003.

Abstract

We report a semiconductor device that exhibits a negative differential resistance characteristic. The device has the same structure as metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistors currently used in integrated circuits. Biasing the structure in the subthreshold regime and sweeping the bulk bias results in the negative differential resistance characteristic. The device exhibits a peak valley current ratio of approximately 52 at room temperature while drawing ten nanoampers of current which is of sufficiently low power for ultra-large scale integration (ULSI) applications.

Details

ISSN :
15580563 and 07413106
Volume :
24
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
IEEE Electron Device Letters
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........34b5870ef48e7a302443ba60e8af99f0
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1109/led.2003.817374