Direct extraction of the AlGaAs/GaAs heterojunction bipolar transistor small-signal equivalent circuit

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 1991, Pages 2018-2024

  Costa, Damian ^a   Harris, James S ^a   Liu, William U ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

PARASITICS; S-PARAMETERS;

TRANSISTORS, BIPOLAR;

EID: 0026221708     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.83724     Document Type: Article

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