An Investigation of the Effect of Graded Layers and Tunneling on the Performance of AlGaAs/GaAs Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 1984, Pages 1758-1765

  Fischer, Russell J ^b   Morkoç, Hadis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 0001242402     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-ED.1984.21784     Document Type: Article

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