Reply to comments on "modeling of small-signal minority-carrier transport in bipolar devices at arbitrary injection levels"

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2371-2372

  Rinaldi, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE CARRIERS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CARRIER TRANSPORT; MINORITY CARRIER; TAYLOR SERIES METHOD;

BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS;

EID: 0036999664     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2002.806778     Document Type: Article

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