A realistic large-signal mesfet model for SPICE

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1563-1571

  Parker, Anthony Edward ^a   Skellern, David James ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

MESFET's; Modeling; Simulation

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE PACKAGE SPICE;

CAPACITANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN OF SOLIDS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; INTERMODULATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; SIGNAL DISTORTION; TRANSCONDUCTANCE;

MESFET DEVICES;

EID: 0031236240     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.622923     Document Type: Article

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