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Strata (domains) of electric field occur in various distributed systems. Electrical and thermal domain instability in semiconductors with N-shaped voltage-current characteristic, for instance, has been thoroughly studied both theoretically and experimentally in the 60s and 70s. Especially well known among such instabilities is the Gunn effect, which consists in formation of a static or traveling electric field domain in homogeneous semiconductors with N-shaped voltage-current characteristic (see, for example, Volkov — Kogan 1968; Bonch-Bruevich — Zvyagin — Mironov 1972).
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Kerner, B.S., Osipov, V.V. (1994). Static and Traveling Strata in Solids and Gases. In: Autosolitons. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 61. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0825-8_7
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