On compact HBT RF noise modeling

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1783-1786

  Rudolph, Matthias ^a   Heymann, Peter ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR HÖCHSTFREQUENZTECHNIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Equivalent circuit; Heterojunction bipolar transistor; Noise; Semiconductor device modeling; Semiconductor device noise; Shot noise; White noise

Indexed keywords

EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; SHOT NOISE; WHITE NOISE;

LARGE-SIGNAL MODEL; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE NOISE; SHOT-NOISE SOURCES;

HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS;

EID: 34748836389     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2007.380076     Document Type: Conference Paper

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