Resonant interband tunnel diode

Resonant interband tunnel diode

Resonant interband tunnel diodes (RITDs) combine the structures and behaviors ofboth "intraband" resonant tunnel diodes (RTDs) and conventional "interband" tunnel diodes,in which electronic transitions occur between the energy levels in the quantumwells in the conduction band and that in the valence band ref|Ng02 ref|Sweeny89.Like resonant tunnel diodes, resonant interband tunnel diodes can be realizedin both the III-V and Si/SiGe materials systems.

III-V Resonant Interband Tunnel Diodes

In the III-V materials system,InAlAs/InGaAs RITDs with peak-to-valley current ratios (PCVRs) higher than70 ref|Day90 and as high as 144 ref|Tsai94at room temperature and Sb-based RITDs with room temperature PVCRas high as 20 ref|Soderstrom89 have been obtained.But the main drawback of III-V RITDs is the use of III-V materialswhose processing is incompatible with Si processing and is expensive.

Si/SiGe Resonant Interband Tunnel Diodes

In Si/SiGe materials system,Si/SiGe resonant interband tunnel diodes have also been developedwhich have the potential of being integrated into the mainstreamSi integrated circuits technology ref|Rommel98.PVCRs of up to 4.0 have been obtained ref|Park2006.The same structure was duplicated by another research group usinga different MBE system, and PVCRs of up to 6.0have been obtainedref|Duschl2000.In terms of peak current density, peak current densities ranging from as low as 20 mA/cm2 and as high as 218 kA/cm2,spanning seven orders of magnitude, have been obtainedref|Chung06.See separate entry
Si/SiGe resonant interband tunnel diodesfor more details.

References

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# S.-Y. Park, S.-Y. Chung, P.R. Berger, R. Yu, and P.E. Thompson, Low sidewall damage plasma etching using ICP-RIE with HBr chemistry of Si/SiGe resonant interband tunnel diodes, IEE Electronics Letters 42, 719 (2006).
# R. Duschl and K. Eberl, Physics and applications of Si/SiGe/Si resonant interband tunneling diodes, Thin Solid Films 380, 151 (2000).
# N. Jin, S.Y. Chung, R. Yu, R.M. Heyns, P.R. Berger, and P.E. Thompson, The effect of spacer thicknesses on Si-based resonant interband tunneling diode performance and their application to low-power tunneling diode SRAM circuits, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices 53, 2243 (2006).
# S.Y. Chung, R. Yu, N. Jin, S.Y. Park, P.R. Berger, and P.E. Thompson, Si/SiGe Resonant Interband Tunnel Diode with fr0 20.2 GHz and Peak Current Density 218 kA/cm2 for K-band Mixed-Signal Applications, IEEE Electron Device Letters 27, 364 (2006).

See also

*Resonant tunnel diode
*Si/SiGe resonant interband tunnel diode


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