The micro-circuit engineering in the nonohmic domain

• Main Authors: Tan, Michael L. P., Arora , Vijay K.
• Format: Book Section
• Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 2009
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/13144/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/UKSIM.2009.12

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,...