Experimental investigation on the quasi-ballistic transport: Part I - Determination of a new backscattering coefficient extraction methodology

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 408-419

  Barral, Vincent ^a,b   Poiroux, Thierry ^a   Saint Martin, Jérôme ^b   Munteanu, Daniela ^b   Autran, Jean Luc ^b,c   Deleonibus, Simon ^a  

^a CEA LETI   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Backscattering coefficient; Injection velocity; Inversion charge; SOI MOSFETs; Universal abaci

Indexed keywords

BALLISTICS; MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS; MOSFET DEVICES;

BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; INJECTION VELOCITY; INVERSION CHARGE; SOI-MOSFETS; UNIVERSAL ABACI;

BACKSCATTERING;

EID: 62749142961     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2008.2011681     Document Type: Article

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