This energy barrier could prove useful in designing next generation electronic devices, such as vertical
tunneling field effect transistors, Robinson said.
Not exact matches
The researchers verified the structure of the nitrogenated crystal by atomic - resolution scanning
tunnelling microscopy imaging and confirmed its semiconducting nature by testing it with a
field effect transistor.
When an electric
field is applied, the electrons move from an energetically higher lying potential well to an energetically lower lying potential well via the quantum mechanical
tunneling effect.
About a dozen possible next - generation candidates exist, including
tunnel FETs (
field effect transistors, in which the output current is controlled by a variable electric
field), carbon nanotubes, superconductors and fundamentally new approaches, such as quantum computing and brain - inspired computing.
A weak UV pulse excited an outer electron to a higher state, followed by a strong infrared pulse creating a
field in which the electron escaped from the molecule due to the
tunneling effect.