Single-event burnout of power bipolar junction transistors

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1991, Pages 1315-1322

  Johnson, Gregory H ^b   Schrimpf, Ronald D ^b   Galloway, Kenneth F ^b  

^a NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATORS; COSMIC RAYS; TRANSISTORS--JUNCTIONS;

SINGLE EVENT BURNOUT;

TRANSISTORS, BIPOLAR;

EID: 0026382712     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.124111     Document Type: Article

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