Stepping toward standard methods of small-signal parameter extraction for HBT's

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1139-1151

  Sotoodeh, Mohammad ^a   Sozzi, Lucia ^a   Vinay, Alessandro ^a   Khalid, A H ^a   Hu, Zhirun ^a   Rezazadeh, A H A ^b   Menozzi, Roberto ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; FREQUENCIES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SCATTERING PARAMETERS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM PHOSPHIDE;

DELAY TIME ANALYSIS; DOUBLE HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTOR; FORWARD TRANSIT TIME; INDIUM GALLIUM PHOSPHIDE;

HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS;

EID: 0033749599     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.842955     Document Type: Article

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