Surface Potential Based Modeling of Thermal Noise for HEMT Circuit Simulation

In this letter, an analytical surface potential based compact model for thermal noise in high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) is presented. The model is based on the recently proposed surface potential formulation for charges and current. The model is tunable and applicable to any HEMT device.

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