Silicon carbide technology

The VLSI Handbook: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 5.1-5.34

  Neudeck, Philip G ^a  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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SILICON CARBIDE;

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