Assessment of thermal instabilities and oscillations in multifinger heterojunction bipolar transistors through a harmonic-balance-based CAD-oriented dynamic stability analysis technique

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3461-3468

  Traversa, Fabio Lorenzo ^a,b   Cappelluti, Federica ^a   Bonani, Fabrizio ^a   Ghione, Giovanni ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Electrothermal effects; Heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs); Stability

Indexed keywords

CAD TOOL; CALCULATION METHODS; CLOSED FORM; DEVICE OPTIMIZATION; DYNAMIC STABILITY ANALYSIS; DYNAMIC STABILITY ASSESSMENT; ELECTROTHERMAL EFFECTS; FINGER DEVICES; FLOQUET MULTIPLIER; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; HARMONIC BALANCE; JACOBIANS; LIMIT CYCLE; MULTIFINGERS; OSCILLATION CRITERION; PERIODIC DYNAMICS; STABILITY ANALYSIS; STABILITY ASSESSMENT; THERMAL INSTABILITIES; WORKING POINT;

BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; SYSTEM STABILITY; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS;

EID: 73049088887     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2009.2034229     Document Type: Article

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