A New DC Model of HBT's Including Self-Heating Effect Suitable for Circuit Simulators

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 1995, Pages 2036-2042

  Dupuis, John ^a   Hajji, Rached ^a   Ghannouchi, Fadhel M ^b   Saab, Khaled ^b   Lavallée, Sylvain ^b  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CIRCUIT SIMULATORS; JUNCTION TEMPERATURE; SELF HEATING EFFECTS;

HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS;

EID: 0029490501     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.477758     Document Type: Article

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