On the thermionic-diffusion theory of minority transport in heterostructure bipolar transistors

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 1993, Pages 859-866

  Grinberg, Anatoly A ^a   Luryi, Serge ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE CARRIERS; DIFFUSION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ENERGY GAP; HETEROJUNCTIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

ABRUPT EMITTER-BASE JUNCTIONS; DRIFT-DIFFUSION; GRADED EMITTER-BASE JUNCTIONS; MINORITY-CARRIER TRANSPORT; QUASI-FERMI LEVEL DISCONTINUITY; THERMIONIC DIFFUSION THEORY;

BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS;

EID: 0027589730     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.210191     Document Type: Article

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