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Silicon Carbide Static Induction Transistors

DeSalvo, 2006

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DeSalvo G
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The static induction transistor (SIT) is a three terminal, vertical current flow, semiconductor device that most closely resembles the solid state version of the triode vacuum tube. M The SIT is also a voltage controlled, majority carrier device, and so it is one version of a field …
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