The Physics and Modeling of Heavily Doped Emitters

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 1984, Pages 1878-1888

  del Alamo, Jesús A ^a   Swanson, Richard M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 30244448020     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-ED.1984.21805     Document Type: Article

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