Transferred electron device

US4894689A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• American Telephone and Telegraph Company, AT&T Bell Laboratories · US

Inventors

• James A. Cooper · West Lafayette, US
• Karvel K. Thornber · Berkeley Heights, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 28, 1984
• Grant date: Jan 16, 1990
• Expiry date: Dec 28, 2004

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H10N80/10

Abstract

A transferred electron device is described in which the charge of the drifting packets is imaged perpendicular to the charge-packet direction so that essentially all of the packet-averaged, space-charge field is normal to the drift direction. This permits continuous formation of contiguous charge packets.