SiGe HBT self-heating modeling and characterization from AC data

BJTs are highly sensitive to self-heating, and accurate modeling of BJTs at high bias levels requires electrothermal models. This paper presents a new technique to measure and extract the thermal admittance for BJTs based on AC data and analytic models.

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