Enhanced high-current VBIC model

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 4 I, 2005, Pages 1235-1243

  Wei, Ce Jun ^a   Gering, Joseph M ^a,b   Tkachenko, Yevgeniy A ^a  

^a SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS INC   (United States)

^b RF MICRO DEVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT); High current; Semiconductor device modeling; Vertical bipolar inter company (VBIC)

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

EMITTER-BASE INJECTION; HIGH CURRENT; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELING; VERTICAL BIPOLAR INTER-COMPANY (VBIC);

HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS;

EID: 18744387761     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.845715     Document Type: Article

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