Abstract:
This is a semiconductor device consisting of a material which exhibits high field instability effects when a potential which exceeds a critical value is applied across the device. Electronic means to vary the conductivity profile along the domain path is provided by having rectifying junctions along the side of the device to vary the minority carrier injections from one or more of the localized PN-junctions.
Abstract:
There is disclosed a phase shift modulated pseudo-noise code generator. This generator employs a surface acoustic wave tapped delay line with feedback. A radio frequency phase reference signal is provided at the tapping points. The radio frequency phase of the modulated carrier is compared with the radio frequency phase of the reference signal at each tapping point from which the feedback is derived. The comparison is performed in a surface acoustic wave modulo-2 adder. This comparison overcomes the phase shift due to temperature effects.
Abstract:
A solid-state device comprising a specimen of multivalley semiconductor material and electric field applying means connected to ohmic contacts attached at one surface of the specimen. The semiconductor material has the innate property of being responsive to electric fields in excess of a critical intensity to cause a redistribution of electric fields so as to nucleate a high electric field region, or domain, and responsive to electric fields in excess of a sustaining intensity, to propagate such high electric field region. A field-sustaining point whereat the electric field intensity is less than a sustaining intensity is defined along an intermediate portion of the specimen. High electric field regions are nucleated and propagated in cyclic fashion such that current through the specimen varies periodically in time in the form of coherent oscillations. The location of the field-sustaining point and, therefore, the frequency of the coherent oscillations in the specimen is continuously controlled by the voltage applied across the ohmic contacts.