“…Negative differential resistance (NDR) effect has been attracting much attention due to its wide application in circuit amplifiers, [1] oscillators, [2] memories, [3] logic functions, [4] etc. At present, the NDR effect has been found in many materials and their devices, such as germanium (Ge), [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] silicon, [14][15][16] transition metal oxides, [17,18] rubrene/Bi 2 Se 3 , [19] etc. Especially, the research on NDR of germanium (Ge)-based devices is important because of their strong compatibility with the existing semiconductor devices.…”