negative effective mass amplifiers and generators
negative effective mass amplifiers and generators
[′neg·əd·iv i¦fek·tiv ¦mas ′am·plə‚fī·ərz ən ′jen·ə‚rād·ərz] (electronics)
Class of solid-state devices for broad-band amplification and generation of electrical waves in the microwave region; these devices use the property of the effective masses of charge carriers in semiconductors becoming negative with sufficiently high kinetic energies.
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