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Peculiarities of the impurity breakdown under conditions of transverse runaway of hot electrons

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The phenomenon of impurity breakdown (IB) under conditions of the transverse runaway (TR) of hot electrons is considered. The effect of increasing the degree of compensation on the ratio of the critical IB (E IB) and TR (E TR) fields for various values of the magnetic field is determined. As the magnetic field grows, the two critical values of the electric fields mutually tend to each other. When the degree of compensation increases at a fixed magnetic field strength, the critical IB field approaches the TR threshold field. These results are of interest for studying nonlinear oscillations arising in the vicinity of the E IB and E TR values.

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    N. K. Metreveli, Z. S. Kachlishvili, F. G. Chumburidze & L. T. Tskipuri

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Translated from Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnichesko\(\overset{\lower0.5em\hbox{$\smash{\scriptscriptstyle\smile}$}}{l} \) Fiziki, Vol. 29, No. 6, 2003, pp. 63–68.

Original Russian Text Copyright © 2003 by Metreveli, Kachlishvili, Chumburidze, Tskipuri.

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Metreveli, N.K., Kachlishvili, Z.S., Chumburidze, F.G. et al. Peculiarities of the impurity breakdown under conditions of transverse runaway of hot electrons. Tech. Phys. Lett. 29, 246–248 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1565648

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