Direct Extraction of Equivalent Circuit Parameters for Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 1995, Pages 2035-2040

  Wei, Ce Jun ^a   Hwang, James C M ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC NETWORK PARAMETERS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

DIRECT PARAMETER EXTRACTION; HYBRID T EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS;

HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS;

EID: 0029378254     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.414537     Document Type: Article

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