Delay of Kirk effect due to collector current spreading in heterojunction bipolar transistors

IEEE Electron Device Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 470-472

  Zampardi, P J ^b   Pan, Dee Son ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; CURRENT DENSITY; DIGITAL CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR CORRECTION; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS;

COLLECTOR CURRENT; EMITTER CURRENT DENSITY; KIRK EFFECT;

HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS;

EID: 0030270142     PISSN: 07413106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/55.537078     Document Type: Article

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