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This chapter discusses two theoretical models for interband tunneling in semiconducting pn junctions, the Zener field-emission model and the Fredkin-Wanner junction potential model. In Chapter 5 of this volume Esaki reviewed the main experimental facts and mentioned these two types of theory. I want to further contrast the two theoretical pictures and to emphasize two mathematical effects where the models seem to differ. These are the so-called Stark ladder and the band-edge breakdown of the WKB connection formula. Both are still somewhat controversial and of current research interest. I do not propose to explain specific calculations or to consider tunneling “assisted” by entities such as phonons, photons, or localized states.
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Shuey, R.T. (1969). Interband Tunneling-Theory. In: Burstein, E., Lundqvist, S. (eds) Tunneling Phenomena in Solids. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1752-4_7
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