Ion-induced sustained high current condition in a bipolar device

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 1994, Pages 2172-2178

  Koga, R ^a   Ferro, R J ^a   Mabry, D J ^a   Pinkerton, S D ^a   Romeo, D E ^a   Scarpulla, J R ^a   Tsubota, T K ^a   Shoga, M ^b  

^a AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; BINARY CODES; CODE CONVERTERS; COMPUTER AIDED NETWORK ANALYSIS; CYCLOTRONS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; IONS; PHOTOEMISSION; POWER CONTROL; RADIATION EFFECTS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS;

ION INDUCED SUSTAINED HIGH CURRENT CONDITION; PHOTOEMISSION MICROSCOPY; SINGLE EVENT UPSET;

BIPOLAR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

EID: 0028712009     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.340559     Document Type: Article

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