Analysis of Thermal Instability in MultiFinger Power AlGaAs/GaAs HBT's

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 17991805-

  Lu, Ke ^a   Snowden, Christopher M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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