Composition ofNoise in Metal-Insulator-Metal Tunnel Junctions
- 24 September 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 53 (13), 1272-1275
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.53.1272
Abstract
We have studied the low-frequency conductance fluctuations of very small-area metalinsulator-metal tunnel junctions. We find that the spectral power density at high temperature is typical of noise, but is resolved into a small number of Lorentzian spectra for K. The thermally activated Lorentzians are described by a two-rate kinetics and a broad distribution of activation energies and attempt rates.
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