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List of Figures<br />

1.1 Drawing of a Resonant Tunneling Diode and Its Electric Potential U 4<br />

1.2 Boundary Conditions on Wigner Distribution f ............ 27<br />

1.3 Grid Showing Modification of Composite Trapezoidal Rule . . . . . . 27<br />

2.1 Flow Chart for Computing U ...................... 28<br />

3.1 Steady-State Solution Branch of dw<br />

dt = h(w, α) =w2 − α ....... 47<br />

3.2 Steady-State Solution Branch of dw<br />

dt = h(w, α) =w3 − αw ...... 48<br />

3.3 Illustration of Pseudo-Arc Length Continuation . . . . . . . . . . . . 53<br />

3.4 Current-VoltagePlot ........................... 62<br />

3.5 Enlarged Portion of Curve Where Methods Were Compared . . . . . 63<br />

3.6 I-V Curve Generated by Time-Accurate Simulation . . . . . . . . . . 65<br />

3.7 Bias Window of Current Oscillation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65<br />

3.8 I-VCurveGeneratedbyLOCA ..................... 66<br />

3.9 Eigenvalues Creating Oscillatory Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67<br />

3.10 Comparison of Current-Voltage Plots for Varying Grids . . . . . . . . 68<br />

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