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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 1976
Filed:
Dec. 23, 1974
Shigeru Mitsui, Amagasaki, JA;
Abstract
A semiconductive body in the form of a rectangular parallelepiped is formed of a semiconductive material, such as gallium arsenide or indium phosphide or Group IV elements, having an electric field-to-current characteristic either including a nonlinear region, such as a negative resistance region; or nonlinear and partly including a saturated region. A dc biasing electric field is applied across two opposite faces of the substrate while an ac input electric field is applied across two opposite faces perpendicular to the first faces of the semiconductive body to form a resultant electric field variable in a portion of the characteristic including the nonlinear or saturated region. This variation in the resultant field causes a current component flowing in the direction of the biasing field through the body to have a frequency equal to a multiple of that of the ac input field.