Stability of Performance and Interfacial Problems in GaAs MESFET's

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1980, Pages 1037-1045

  Itoh, Tomohiro ^a   Yanai, Hisayoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSISTORS, FIELD EFFECT;

EID: 0019024344     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-ED.1980.19984     Document Type: Article

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