Switching in amorphous devices
- 1 November 1992
- journal article
- switching phenomena
- Published by Informa UK Limited in International Journal of Electronics
- Vol. 73 (5), 897-906
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00207219208925733
Abstract
Electrical switching of a kind can be observed in a great variety of materials in many different forms and structures. Much the most reproducible switching is observed, however, in small and geometrically well-defined devices fabricated from thin films of certain amorphous semiconductors. This paper is concerned with such devices. The general features of electrical switching are first reviewed, followed by a more detailed account of recent work in the authors' own laboratories on digital and analogue switching in hydrogenated amorphous silicon.Keywords
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