Abstract
A method for controlling operation of a transistor includes the following steps: providing a bipolar transistor having emitter, base and collector regions; applying electrical signals to the transistor to produce light emission from the transistor; effecting photon-assisted tunneling of carriers in the transistor with self-generated photons of the light emission, and controlling operation of the transistor by controlling the photon-assisted tunneling.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| U.S. patent number | 7711015 |
| Filing date | 5/24/07 |
| State | Published - May 4 2010 |