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List of Acronyms

ASIC ... Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
BB ... Band-to-Band tunneling
BGN ... Bandgap Narrowing
BICMOS ... Bipolar CMOS
BJT ... Bipolar Junction Transistor
BTE ... Boltzmann Transport Equation
CAD ... Computer Aided Design
CML ... Current-Mode Logic
CMOS ... Complementary MOS
CPU ... Central Processing Unit
CQFL ... Continuous Quasi-Fermi Level
CVD ... Chemical Vapor Deposition
DD ... Drift-Diffusion
DHBT ... Double Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor
DOS ... Density of States
ECAD ... Electronic CAD
ECL ... Emitter-Coupled Logic
ET ... Energy Transport
GSH ... Global Self Heating
HBT ... Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor
HD ... Hydrodynamic
HEMT ... High-Electron-Mobility Transistor
HFET ... Heterostructure Field Effect Transistor
IC ... Integrated Circuit
II ... Impact Ionization
MC ... Monte-Carlo
MESFET ... Metal Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
MMIC ... Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit
MOCVD ... Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition
MOS ... Metal Oxide Semiconductor
MOSFET ... MOS Field Effect Transistor
PAE ... Power-Added Efficiency
PHEMT ... Pseudomorphic High-Electron-Mobility Transistor
RF ... Radio Frequency
SH ... Self Heating
SHBT ... Single Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor
SIMS ... Secondary Ion Mass Spectroscopy
SRH ... Shockley-Read-Hall
TBB ... Trap-assisted Band-to-Band tunneling
TCAD ... Technology CAD
TE ... Thermionic Emission
TFE ... Thermionic Field Emission
USD ... United States Dollars
VISTA ... Viennese Integrated System for TCAD Applications


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Vassil Palankovski
2001-02-28