Analysis of Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor/Resonant Tunneling Diode Logic for Low-Power and High-speed Digital Applications

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 685-691

  Brown, Elliott R ^c   Asbeck, Peter M ^a   Wang, Keh Chung ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ROCKWELL SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LOGIC DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; TUNNEL DIODES;

SOFTWARE PACKAGE SPICE;

HETEROJUNCTIONS;

EID: 0027578157     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.202778     Document Type: Article

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