The micro-circuit engineering in the nonohmic domain
Considering the breakdown of Ohm's law in microcircuits, the direct and differential (incremental) resistance is shown to rise dramatically in the regime where applied voltage V triggering the nonohmic behavior is larger than the critical voltage V=(Vco/lo) L, where Vt) is the thermal voltage,...
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my.utm.131442011-07-19T09:28:48Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/13144/ The micro-circuit engineering in the nonohmic domain Tan, Michael L. P. Arora , Vijay K. TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Considering the breakdown of Ohm's law in microcircuits, the direct and differential (incremental) resistance is shown to rise dramatically in the regime where applied voltage V triggering the nonohmic behavior is larger than the critical voltage V=(Vco/lo) L, where Vt) is the thermal voltage, lo) is the Ohmic mean free path, and L is the length of the conducting channel. This resistance blow-up becomes more pronounced for a smaller-length resistor in a circuit where two resistors of equal ohmic values are connected in a series or parallel configuration. The power consumed not only is reduced but also is a linear function of voltage as compared to quadratic behavior in the ohmic regime. These results are of immense value to circuit engineers and those doing device characterization to extract parasitic and contact transport parameters. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 2009 Book Section PeerReviewed Tan, Michael L. P. and Arora , Vijay K. (2009) The micro-circuit engineering in the nonohmic domain. In: 11th International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation, UKSim 2009. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, 600 -604. ISBN 978-076953593-7 http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/UKSIM.2009.12 doi:10.1109/UKSIM.2009.12 |
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Considering the breakdown of Ohm's law in microcircuits, the direct and differential (incremental) resistance is shown to rise dramatically in the regime where applied voltage V triggering the nonohmic behavior is larger than the critical voltage V=(Vco/lo) L, where Vt) is the thermal voltage, lo) is the Ohmic mean free path, and L is the length of the conducting channel. This resistance blow-up becomes more pronounced for a smaller-length resistor in a circuit where two resistors of equal ohmic values are connected in a series or parallel configuration. The power consumed not only is reduced but also is a linear function of voltage as compared to quadratic behavior in the ohmic regime. These results are of immense value to circuit engineers and those doing device characterization to extract parasitic and contact transport parameters. |
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