A scalable general-purpose model for microwave fet's including dc/ac dispersion effects

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 45, Issue 12 PART 2, 1997, Pages 2248-2255

  Cojocaru, Vicentiu I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Microwave fet's; Microwave transistors; Nonlinear modeling; Parameter extraction; Semiconductor device modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS; MESFET DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE TESTING; TRANSCONDUCTANCE;

MICROWAVE TRANSISTORS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE COBRA;

MICROWAVE CIRCUITS;

EID: 0031342411     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.643826     Document Type: Article

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