Tunneling Diodes under Environmental Effects

THz resonant-tunneling diodes

Analysis of Environmental Effects on Leaf Temperature under Sunlight, High Pressure Sodium and Light Emitting Diodes

The use of LED technology is commonly assumed to result in significantly cooler leaf temperatures than high pressure sodium technology. To evaluate the magnitude of this effect, we measured radiation incident to and absorbed by a leaf under four radiation sources: clear sky sunlight in the field, sunlight in a glass greenhouse, and indoor plants under either high pressure sodium or light emitti...

Ferromagnetic Resonant Tunneling Diodes: Physics and Applications

Dedication To my family. v Acknowledgements I would like to acknowledge, foremost, my advisor Prof. Sanjay Banerjee. I should thank him for providing me the opportunity to pursue graduate study, his constant support for the last six years – both intellectual and material, and the flexibility he afforded to me to define and follow my interests. Second, I would like to acknowledge my co-advisor P...

Geometry enhanced asymmetric rectifying tunneling diodes

In this article, the authors show that geometric asymmetry in the layout of tunnel diodes yields asymmetry in the current-voltage I-V relationships associated with these diodes. Asymmetry improves diode performance. This effect is demonstrated for polysilicon–SiO2–Ti /Au and for Ni–NiO–Ni tunneling structures. For a polysilicon–SiO2–Ti /Au asymmetric tunneling diode ATD , sensitivity and I-V cu...

Electron-photon interaction in resonant tunneling diodes

– We develop a model to describe the transmission coefficient and tunneling current in the presence of electron-photon coupling in a resonant diode. Our model takes into account multiphoton processes as well as the transitions between electronic states with different wave numbers. This is crucial to explain the experimental features observed in the tunneling current through a double barrier whi...