A novel optoelectronic functional circuit with heterojunction phototransistors (HPTs) and resonant tunneling diodes (RTDs) is described,which presents the function of both photocurrent switching and photo-current latching.These behaviors have been demonstrated by simulating experiments and circuit simulation.Furthermore,basing on photo-current latching behavior,various photo-controlled basis logic elements such as delayed flip-flop (DFF) can be designed and fabricated.
The distinction between two microwave equivalent-circuit models,quasi Esaki tunneling model (QETM) and quantum well injection transit model (QWITM),for the resonant tunneling diode (RTD) is discussed in details,and two groups of circuit parameters are extracted from experiment data by the least square fit method.Both theory analysis and the comparison of fit results demonstrate that QWITM is much more precise than QETM.In addition,the rationality of QWITM circuit's parameters confirms it too.On this basis,the resistive frequency is calculated,whose influence factors and improvement method are simply discussed as well.
