Modulating the Bipolar Junction Transistor Subjected to Neutron Irradiation for Integrated Circuit Simulation

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 593-597

  Liou, Juin J ^a   Yuan, Jiann Shiun ^a   Shakouri, Hooman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS, DIFFERENTIAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NEUTRONS--RADIATION EFFECTS;

BJT DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; NEUTRON IRRADIATION; SOFTWARE PACKAGE SPICE;

TRANSISTORS, BIPOLAR;

EID: 0026838343     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.123483     Document Type: Article

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