Theory of hole initiated impact ionization in bulk zincblende and wurtzite GaN

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 7827-7834

  Ogǔzman, Ismail H ^a,d   Bellotti, Enrico ^a   Brennan, Kevin F ^a   Kolník, Ján ^b   Wang, Rongping ^c   Ruden, P Paul ^c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Symbios Logic   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION   (United States)

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EID: 0000388575     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.365392     Document Type: Article

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