FEAT - A simulation tool for electrothermal analysis of multifinger bipolar transistors

EUROCON 2005 - The International Conference on Computer as a Tool

Volumn I, Issue , 2005, Pages 879-882

  La Spina, L ^a   Nenadovic N ^a   D'Alessandro, V ^b   Nanver, L K ^a   Rinaldi, N ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bipolar transistor; Electrothermal effects; Electrothermal simulation tools; Reliability; Thermal design

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RELIABILITY; USER INTERFACES;

ELECTROTHERMAL EFFECTS; MODEL ACCURACY; THERMAL DESIGN;

BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS;

EID: 33847787235     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/eurcon.2005.1630075     Document Type: Conference Paper

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