Electron counting at room temperature in an avalanche bipolar transistor

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Lany, Marc ^a   Boero, Giovanni ^a   Popovic, Radivoje ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DIODES; ELECTRONS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

AVALANCHE BREAKDOWN; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS;

EID: 38349098683     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2830015     Document Type: Article

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