Low excess noise characteristics in thin avalanche region GaAs diodes

Electronics Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 125-126

  Li, K F ^a   Ong, D S ^a   David, J P R ^a   Tozer, R C ^a   Rees, G J ^a   Robson, P N ^a   Grey, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; IONIZATION OF SOLIDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT;

MCINTYRE'S AVALANCHE NOISE THEORY;

AVALANCHE DIODES;

EID: 0032495388     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19980021     Document Type: Article

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