Observation of intrinsic bistability in resonant tunneling structures
- 23 March 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 58 (12), 1256-1259
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.58.1256
Abstract
A simple quantum system, the semiconductor-based double-barrier resonant-tunneling structure, exhibits intrinsic bistability which we attribute to the feedback dependence of the energy of the electronic states in the well on the tunneling current density.Keywords
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