Thermal Resistance of Light-Emitting Diodes

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 1985, Pages 2282-2291

  Nakwaski, Włodzimierz ^a   Kontkiewicz, Andrzej M ^b  

^a LODZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b Department of Micro and Nanotechnology of Wide Bandgap Semiconductors   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THERMAL EFFECTS - MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES; THERMAL RESISTANCE;

SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES, LIGHT EMITTING;

EID: 0022149340     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-ED.1985.22271     Document Type: Article

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