Materials and processing issues in vertical GaN power electronics

Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing - Tập 78 - Trang 75-84 - 2018
Jie Hu1, Yuhao Zhang1, Min Sun1, Daniel Piedra1, Nadim Chowdhury1, Tomás Palacios1
1Microsystems Technology Laboratories, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

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