This paper details the use of a circuit-based EM modelling technique combined with a harmonic balance simulator used to model the radiation from the microstrip bodies comprising an active antenna circuit. The modellin...
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This paper details the use of a circuit-based EM modelling technique combined with a harmonic balance simulator used to model the radiation from the microstrip bodies comprising an active antenna circuit. The modelling approach adopted for the planar bodies in the circuit will be shown to allow the use of concurrent algorithms in order to reduce overall computational time.
InP-based resonant tunneling hot electron transistors (RHET's) were studied systematically using chemical beam epitaxy (CBE) for the first time. All the RHET's studied have a highly strained AlAs/In0.75Ga0.25A...
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InP-based resonant tunneling hot electron transistors (RHET's) were studied systematically using chemical beam epitaxy (CBE) for the first time. All the RHET's studied have a highly strained AlAs/In0.75Ga0.25As/AlAs resonant tunneling double barrier as a hot electron injector, and an InP collector barrier with or without InGaAsP graded layers. The highest transport ratio (alpha) observed is 0.98, and the highest peak-to-valley current ratios (PVR's) measured are 20 and 200 in the collector current and base current, respectively, at 80 K. A self-consistent simulation is used as a reference to optimize the hot electron injector and to explain the ballistic transport. An energy spectrometer technique was applied to the RHET's for resolving the hot electron energy distribution which showed a full width at half maximum (FWHM) of around 58 meV, indicating ballistic transport of electrons. Finally, room temperature transistor action was also observed with a beta of 4 and a cutoff frequency of 31 GHz.
A systematic growth study of InGaAs/AlAs/InGaAsP resonant tunneling hot electron transistors (RHETs) was performed using chemical beam epitaxy (CBE). The resonant tunneling hot electron transistors studied consist of ...
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A systematic growth study of InGaAs/AlAs/InGaAsP resonant tunneling hot electron transistors (RHETs) was performed using chemical beam epitaxy (CBE). The resonant tunneling hot electron transistors studied consist of a highly strained AlAs/In0.75Ga0.25As/AlAs double barrier structure and an undoped InP collector barrier with 1.1 and 1.2 mum InGaAsP graded layers. These quaternaries were lattice matched to InP within 2.6 X 10(-4) and showed an averaged full width at half-maximum (FWHM) of 6 meV from low temperature photoluminescence (PL) measurement. The effects of growth interrupt were studied using PL, X-ray diffraction and secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) measurements. It was found that excessive growth interrupt induced high oxygen accumulation (8 X 10(18) cm-3) at the heterojunction and reduced the intensity of PL spectra. Moreover, for the growth of tunneling heterostructures, low substrate temperature, appropriate growth interrupts and use of hydride drying filters and high purity hydrides were helpful to improve device performance. The highest peak-to-valley current ratio (PVR) observed was 12.7, and maximum base transport ratio was 0.98 at 80 K. Furthermore, some digital functions such as flip-flop gate and exclusive NOR were demonstrated using a single RHET.
A simplified nonlinear model is proposed for intermodulation (IM) analysis of MESFET gate mixers. The accuracy of the model has been verified experimentally using two different MESFET mixers at X-band. Both tests show...
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A simplified nonlinear model is proposed for intermodulation (IM) analysis of MESFET gate mixers. The accuracy of the model has been verified experimentally using two different MESFET mixers at X-band. Both tests show excellent agreement between measurement and simulated data for second- and third-order IM performance. The simplified model is based on modeling the derivative of the device transconductance by the sum of a Gaussian function and a linear function of the gate voltage. Drain bias dependence is ignored. The advantage of this model is that the fitting parameters can be easily determined from a nonlinear characterization of the device at low frequencies.< >
Model-based evaluation of reliable distributed and parallel systems is difficult due to the complexity of these systems and the nature of the dependability measures of interest. The complexity creates problems for ana...
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Model-based evaluation of reliable distributed and parallel systems is difficult due to the complexity of these systems and the nature of the dependability measures of interest. The complexity creates problems for analytical model solution techniques, and the fact that reliability and availability measures are based on rare events makes traditional simulation methods inefficient. Importance sampling is a well-known technique for improving the efficiency of rare event simulations. However, finding an importance sampling strategy that works well in general is a difficult problem. The best strategy for importance sampling depends on the characteristics of the system and the dependability measure of interest. This fact motivated the development of an environment for importance sampling that would support the wide variety of model characteristics and interesting measures. The environment is based on stochastic activity networks, and importance sampling strategies are specified using the new concept of the importance sampling governor. The governor supports dynamic importance sampling strategies by allowing the stochastic elements of the model to be redefined based on the evolution of the simulation. The utility of the new environment is demonstrated by evaluating the unreliability of a highly dependable fault-tolerant unit used in the well-known MARS architecture. The model is non-Markovian, with Weibull distributed failure times and uniformly distributed repair times.< >
The concept of a simulation environment combines different aspects of the simulation process into one complete powerful tool. The environment should provide the necessary state-of-the-art advances and concepts that a ...
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The concept of a simulation environment combines different aspects of the simulation process into one complete powerful tool. The environment should provide the necessary state-of-the-art advances and concepts that a modeler may require during the simulation development and execution process. The "environment" requirements must address the end user needs while minimizing the necessity of learning a new language. The requirements must specify the useful features, independent of different platforms and implementation languages. Hence the opportunity exists for standardization of environments. The paper opens a discussion on challenges and rewards awaiting the simulation community with the advent of a standard environment.
We present a numerical study of the GAMMA-X mixing in GaAs/AlAs/GaAs quantum well structures. A GAMMA-X mixing model proposed by Liu [Appl. Phys. Lett. 51, 1019 (1987)] is extended to include the effects of self-consi...
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We present a numerical study of the GAMMA-X mixing in GaAs/AlAs/GaAs quantum well structures. A GAMMA-X mixing model proposed by Liu [Appl. Phys. Lett. 51, 1019 (1987)] is extended to include the effects of self-consistency and nonzero transverse momentum. In the present model, the coupled Schrodinger equations for GAMMA and X electron envelope wave functions are solved self-consistently with Poisson's equation to calculate the electron transmission probability and wave functions, which lead to the current-voltage (I-V) characteristics of single barrier and double barrier resonant tunneling diode structures. The quantum transmitting boundary method is employed in the model for numerical solution of the coupled Schrodinger equations, which proves to be very stable and efficient, even for large (> 2000 angstrom) structures. The features of GAMMA-X mixing, such as the resonance/antiresonance in the transmission probability and the virtual bound states, are clearly demonstrated. Additional physical features are observed in the transmission probability and the wave functions under applied bias conditions. Our work shows that inclusion of transverse momentum, variable effective mass, and the self-consistent potential is important in the realistic modeling of I-V characteristics for structures exhibiting GAMMA-X coupling.
In numerical simulations of fluid-dynamics problems, solution-adaptive methods have proven to be very powerful. The implementation of the modified Shepard’s interpolation to the structured grids used in CFD is sugges...
This chapter discusses DX and related defects in semiconductors. Often, the most difficult aspect of research into semiconductor defects is arriving at an accurate description of the properties of the defect enabling ...
This chapter discusses DX and related defects in semiconductors. Often, the most difficult aspect of research into semiconductor defects is arriving at an accurate description of the properties of the defect enabling the study of the defect by any laboratory. While observations of the optical, electrical, and environmental behavior of a defect form a useful starting point, uncertainty over the necessary and sufficient properties for observation and investigation of the defect can linger for a surprisingly long time. Research on the DX center fully reflects these difficulties. Only when the atomic nature and workings of the defect are understood do the interpretations of the defect begin to converge. Such explicit atomic-level understanding has been the goal of recent DX studies, along with attempts at first-principle theories of DX centers. The chapter also discusses the Hall measurements of the electrical properties of semiconductors. A typical Hall measurement consists of a plot of the logarithm of the Hall electron concentration as a function of the inverse temperature 1/ T in kelvins. The slope of such an Arrhenius plot is the standard free enthalpy change of an electron transition from a bound state to the conduction band minimum.
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