Physics of High-Speed Transistors

Juras Pozela

ISBN 10: 0306446197 / ISBN 13: 9780306446191

Editore: Humana, Springer US, 1993

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book examines the physical principles behind the operation of high-speed transistors operating at frequencies above 10 GHz and having switching times less than 100 psec. If the 1970s cannot be remembered for the opportunities for creating and extensively using transistors operating at such high speeds, then, the situation has changed radically because of rapid progress in sub micrometer technology for manufacturing transistors and integrated circuits from GaAs and other semiconductor materials and the powerful influx of new physical concepts. Not only have transistors having switching speeds of 50-100 psec operating in the 10-20 GHz region been created in recent years, but the possibilities for manufacturing transistors operating one to two orders of magnitude faster have been revealed. As superhigh-speed transistors have been created, many of the most important areas of technology such as communications, computing technology, television, radar, and the manufacture of scientific, industrial, and medical equipment have qualitatively changed. Microwave transistors operating at millimeter wavelengths make it possible to produce compact and highly efficient equipment for communications and radar technology. Transistors with switching speeds better than 10-100 psec make it possible to increase the speed of microprocessors and other computer components to tens of billions of operations per second and thereby solve one of the most pressing problems of modern electronics - increasing the speed of digital information processing.

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• Titolo: Physics of High-Speed Transistors
• Editore: Humana, Springer US
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0306446197
• ISBN 13: 9780306446191
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 241 L x 160 A x 24 P (millimetri) 241 millimetri di larghezza per 160 millimetri di altezza per 24 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 699 grammi

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This book examines the physical principles behind the operation of high-speed transistors operating at frequencies above 10 GHz and having switching times less than 100 psec. If the 1970s cannot be remembered for the opportunities for creating and extensively using transistors operating at such high speeds, then, the situation has changed radically because of rapid progress in sub micrometer technology for manufacturing transistors and integrated circuits from GaAs and other semiconductor materials and the powerful influx of new physical concepts. Not only have transistors having switching speeds of 50-100 psec operating in the 10-20 GHz region been created in recent years, but the possibilities for manufacturing transistors operating one to two orders of magnitude faster have been revealed. As superhigh-speed transistors have been created, many of the most important areas of technology such as communications, computing technology, television, radar, and the manufacture of scientific, industrial, and medical equipment have qualitatively changed. Microwave transistors operating at millimeter wavelengths make it possible to produce compact and highly efficient equipment for communications and radar technology. Transistors with switching speeds better than 10-100 psec make it possible to increase the speed of microprocessors and other computer components to tens of billions of operations per second and thereby solve one of the most pressing problems of modern electronics - increasing the speed of digital information processing.

Contenuti

High-Speed Transistor Parameters. Technological and Physical Limitations on Transistor Miniaturization. Maximum Drift Velocity in Semiconductors. Homojunction Field-Effect and Bipolar Transistors. Heterostructure Field-Effect Transistors. Heterostructure Bipolar Transistors. Hot-Electron Transistors. Analog Transistors. Quantum-Effect Transistors. High-Speed Devices and Integrated Circuits. Index.