Publication Date:
2011-08-19
Description:
The paper reports on a detailed experimental investigation of lateral tunneling between electrodes of a two-dimensional electron gas separated by the voltage-controlled barrier of a nanometer Schottky gate. The experimental data are modeled using the WKB method to calculate the tunneling probability of electrons through a barrier whose shape is determined from a solution of the two-dimensional Poisson equation. This model is in excellent agreement with the experimental data over a two order of magnitude range of current.
Keywords:
ELECTRONICS AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
Type:
Applied Physics Letters (ISSN 0003-6951); 59; 213-215
Format:
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