Equivalence of diffusive conduction and giant ambipolar diffusion
- 1 April 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 91 (7) , 4374-4381
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1453508
Abstract
Two high speed diffusion mechanisms in semiconductor heterostructures, diffusive conduction, and giant ambipolar diffusion, are compared and shown to be nearly equivalent descriptions of the same physical process. Fundamental limits of this process are discussed.This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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