✦ LIBER ✦
Calculation of the intrinsic spectral density of current fluctuations in nanometric Schottky-barrier diodes at terahertz frequencies
✍ Scribed by F.Z. Mahi; A. Helmaoui; L. Varani; P. Shiktorov; E. Starikov; V. Gruzhinskis
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 346 KB
- Volume
- 403
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0921-4526
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✦ Synopsis
An analytical model for the noise spectrum of nanometric Schottky-barrier diodes (SBD) is developed. The calculated frequency dependence of the spectral density of current fluctuations exhibits resonances in the terahertz domain which are discussed and analyzed as functions of the length of the diode, free carrier concentration, length of the depletion region and applied voltage. A good agreement obtained with direct Monte Carlo simulations of GaAs SBDs operating from barrier-limited to flat-band conditions fully validates the proposed approach.