Charge Distribution and Capacitance of Double Barrier Resonant Tunneling Diodes
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Charge and potential profiles are self-consistently calculated in double-barrier heterostmctures to derive the capacitance of resonant tunnelling devices. We show that the dipole charge integrated over the accumulation or the depletion side of the device is the result of a complex arrangement of the mobile charge dragged and drifted when a bias is applied. Excellent agreement is found with capacitance measurements carried out on hgh performance resonant tunnelling diodes up to 40 GHz .
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