Nucleation Process of a Filamentary Current during Impact Ionization Avalanche in n-GaAs

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1106-1109

  Aoki, Kazunori ^a   Fukui, Suguru ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

current filament; front mobility; front velocity; impact ionization; nucleation process

Indexed keywords

EID: 22044444718     PISSN: 00319015     EISSN: 13474073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.67.1106     Document Type: Article

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