Analysis of the large-signal characteristics of power heterojunction bipolar transistors exhibiting self-heating effects

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 534-542

  Samelis, Apostolos ^a   Pavlidis, Dimitris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterojunction bipolar transistors; Large signal modeling; Thermal effects

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODELS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; THERMAL EFFECTS;

LARGE-SIGNAL CHARACTERISTICS;

HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS;

EID: 0031121920     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.566634     Document Type: Article

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