Study on Noise Performance of a GaN Homo-Heterojunction IMPATT Diode

DAI Yang; DANG Jiangtao; YE Qingsong; LU Zhaoyang; ZHANG Weiwei; LEI Xiaoyi; ZHAO Shenglei; ZHAO Wu

doi:10.13911/j.cnki.1004-3365.210267

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