Two-Dimensional Analysis of Short-Channel Delta-Doped GaAs MESFET’s

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 1992, Pages 1998-2006

  Witkowski, Larry C ^b   Kim, Ki Wook ^a   Littlejohn, Michael A ^a   Bedair, Salah M ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GATES (TRANSISTOR); SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

DELTA DOPING; TRANSCONDUCTANCE;

MESFET DEVICES;

EID: 0026923478     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.155870     Document Type: Article

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