Location of 1/f Noise Sources in BJT's and HBJT's—I. Theory

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 1986, Pages 1371-1376

  Van Der Ziel, Aldert ^a   Pawlikiewicz, Adam H ^a   Zhang, Xiaonan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Semiconductor Operations ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES - HETEROJUNCTIONS;

1/F NOISE; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; STRONG EMITTER FEEDBACK;

TRANSISTORS, BIPOLAR;

EID: 0022783948     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-ED.1986.22672     Document Type: Article

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