A Study of Photon Emission from n-Channel MOSFET's

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 1987, Pages 1501-1508

  Toriumi, Akira ^a   Yoshimi, Makoto ^a   Iwase, Masao ^a   Akiyama, Yutaka ^a   Taniguchi, Kenji ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTONS - SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

N-CHANNEL MOSFET; PHOTON EMISSION;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES, MOSFET;

EID: 0023382681     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-ED.1987.23112     Document Type: Article

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