单电子晶体管-金属氧化物半导体场效应晶体管多峰值负微分电阻器件

传统的共振隧穿二极管的多峰值负微分电阻器件的峰值数目受到限制，由单电子器件和传统的金属氧化物半导体场效应晶体管(MOSFET)器件组成的多峰值负微分电阻器件在原理上具有无穷多个峰值，并且MOSFET使单电子晶体管(SET)的峰值和谷值电流大小受其源漏电压的影响减小.利用这种多峰值负微分电阻器件实现了多值存储器，该存储器原理上是无穷多值的.并且利用它的折叠的I-V特性，实现了一个4位的Flash A/D转换器，与传统的Flash A/D转换器相比，SET-MOSFET的A/D转换器大大地简化了电路. 关键词： 库仑阻塞 库仑振荡 负微分电阻 多值存储器

Multipeak negative-differential-resistance device by combining SET and MOSFET

A multipeak negative-differential-resistance(NDR) device which comprises a singl e-electron transistor (SET) and a metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect-transis tor (MOSFET) can achieve infinite number of peaks in principle. The MOS device e liminates the large SD voltage dependence of the peak and volley currents of the SET. The multipeak NDR device can be widely used in multiple-valued logics, and analog-to-digital converters (ADCs). We obtain a multiple-valued memory unit th rough the multipeak NDR device. And by using the folding I-V characteristic, a four-bit ADC is achieved. Compared with the traditional flash ADC, the SET-MO SFET ADC is very simple.