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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 71, Issue 16, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.165326
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Current-voltage characteristics of resonant-tunneling structures often exhibit intrinsic bistabilities. In the bistable region of the I-V curve one of the two current states is metastable. The system switches from the metastable state to the stable one at a random moment in time. The mean switching time tau depends exponentially on the bias measured from the boundary of the bistable region V-th. We find full expressions for tau (including prefactors) as functions of bias, sample geometry, and in-plane conductivity. Our results take universal form upon appropriate renormalization of the threshold voltage V-th. We also show that in large samples the switching initiates inside, at the edge, or at a corner of the sample depending on the parameters of the system.
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