Wide Bandgap Compound Semiconductors for Superior High-Voltage Unipolar Power Devices

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 1994, Pages 1481-1483

  Chow, T Paul ^a   Tyagi, Ritu ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

figures of merit; unipolar power devices; Wide bandgap semiconductors

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ENERGY GAP; INTERMETALLICS; OXIDES; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

FIGURES OF MERIT; UNIPOLAR POWER DEVICES; WIDE BANDGAP SEMICONDUCTORS;

SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS;

EID: 0028485013     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.297751     Document Type: Article

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