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This paper discusses the question of how the size of the spacer layers affects the position and width of the bistability region in the current-voltage characteristics of tunnel resonance diodes. The current-voltage characteristics were calculated in terms of the self-consistent effective-mass approximation. Increasing the size of the spacer layers shifts the lower boundary of the bistability region upwards so that this region becomes narrower and then completely disappears.
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Pis’ma Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 23, 12–16 (November 12, 1997)
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Vrubel’, M.M., Borzdov, V.M. & Komarov, F.F. Effect of the width of the spacer layers on the size of the bistability region in the current-voltage characteristics of two-barrier tunnel resonance diodes. Tech. Phys. Lett. 23, 823–824 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1261896
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