High-power photoconductive semiconductor switches treated with amorphic diamond coatings

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 30, Issue 5 I, 2002, Pages 1897-1904

  Davanloo, Farzin ^a   Collins, Carl B ^a   Agee, Forrest J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Amorphic diamond coating; High gain GaAs photoconductive semiconductor switch; High power repetitive pulsers; Rectifying heterojunctions; Stacked Blumlein pulsers

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; COATINGS; DIAMONDS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; HETEROJUNCTIONS; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; POWER ELECTRONICS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE TESTING;

AMORPHIC DIAMOND COATINGS; HIGH POWER REPETITIVE PULSERS; PHOTOCONDUCTIVE SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHES; STACKED BLUMLEIN PULSERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHES;

EID: 0036826782     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2002.805377     Document Type: Article

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