Nonlinear electrical properties of nanostructured porous silicon films
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https://doi.org/10.26577/phst-2014-1-17Keywords:
porous silicon, nanofilms, negative resistance, tunneling effect, non-linear fractal.Abstract
Porous silicon films have been prepared by electrochemical etching. Morphology of the films has beenstudied by scanning probe microscope characterized by presence of self-similar structures with different scales from hundreds of nanometers to microns. Current-Voltage characteristic of nanofilms has several minima in contrast to the well-known effect of negative resistance in tunnel diodes. For theoretical description of the experimental results we suggest a new concept of "non-linear fractal".References
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for scale-invariant neural networks// Journal of Neuroscience
and Neuroengineering.– 2013.- Vol.2. – No.3 – P.
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