Perforated tunnel exit regions and micro-pressure waves : geometrical influence

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors are grateful to the following bodies that provided financial support for the project: (i) China Scholarship Council, (ii) National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. U1334201 and (iii) UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (Grant No. EP/G069441/1).

Experimentally estimated dead space for GaAs and InP based planar Gunn diodes

The authors would like to thank the staff of the James Watt Nanofabrication Centre at the University of Glasgow for help in fabricating the devices which is reported in this paper. ‘Part of this work was supported by ESPRC through EP/H011862/ 1, and EP/H012966/1.