Transition Region Capacitance of Diffused p-n Junctions

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1971, Pages 178-195

  Chawla, Basant R ^a   Gummel, Hermann K ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

P-N JUNCTIONS;

SEMICONDUCTORS--JUNCTIONS;

EID: 0015021073     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-ED.1971.17172     Document Type: Article

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