Self-heating effect compensation in HBTs and its analysis and simulation

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 2640-2646

  Zhu, Yu ^a,b,c   Twynam, John K ^a,b   Yagura, Motoji ^a,b   Hasegawa, Masatomo ^a,b   Hasegawa, Takao ^a,b   Eguchi, Yoshihito ^a,b   Amano, Yoshihisa ^a,b   Suematsu, Eiji ^a,b   Sakuno, Keiichi ^a,b   Matsumoto, Nobuyuki ^a,b   Sato, Hiroya ^a,b   Hashizume, Nobuo ^a,b,d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b SHARP CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c Ansoft Corporation   (United States)

^d HIROSHIMA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Feedback; HBT; Semiconductor device modeling; Semiconductor device thermal factors; Temperature

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE TESTING; THERMAL EFFECTS;

GUMMEL-POON MODEL; THERMAL ELECTRIC FEEDBACK;

HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS;

EID: 6644223785     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.960390     Document Type: Article

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