Monte Carlo Determination of the Intrinsic Small-Signal Equivalent Circuit of MESFET's

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 605-611

  González, Tomás ^a   Pardo, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRODES; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

DEVICE TRANSIENT RESPONSE; DRAIN CONDUCTANCE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; GATE DRAIN CAPACITANCE; INTRINSIC SMALL SIGNAL EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT; VOLTAGE STEP PERTURBATION;

MESFET DEVICES;

EID: 0029292268     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.372061     Document Type: Article

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