Novel fabrication of Ti-Pt-Au/GaAs Schottky diodes

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1465-1468

  St Jean, Christopher A ^a   Bishop, William L ^a   Sarpong, Benjamin K ^a   Marazita, Steven M ^a   Crowe, Thomas W ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; PLATINUM; RELIABILITY; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; VARACTORS;

MILLIMETER WAVE VARACTOR DIODES; SUBMILLIMETER WAVE TECHNOLOGY;

SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES;

EID: 0034227822     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.848293     Document Type: Article

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