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An instability of the electron concentration is predicted in a semiconductor with a nearly saturating drift velocity and a diffusion constant which increases with increasing electric field. A small signal analysis shows under what conditions fluctuations of the carrier concentration will be unstable.
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W. P. Dumke (1967) studied this question.
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