The source-gated amorphous silicon photo-transistor

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1789-1794

  Gadelrab, Serag M ^a   Chamberlain, Savvas G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b NORTEL NETWORKS   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN; PERFORMANCE; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

THIN FILM TRANSISTOR TECHNOLOGY;

PHOTOTRANSISTORS;

EID: 0031246972     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.628838     Document Type: Article

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