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Elhami Khorasani, A.; Griswold, M.; Alford, T. L. (2014). "Gate-Controlled Reverse Recovery for Characterization of LDMOS Body Diode". IEEE Electron Device Letters. 35 (11): 1079. Bibcode:2014IEDL...35.1079E. doi:10.1109/LED.2014.2353301. S2CID 7012254.
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Guarnieri, M. (2011). "Trailblazers in Solid-State Electronics". IEEE Ind. Electron. Mag. 5 (4): 46–47. Bibcode:2011IIEM....5d..46G. doi:10.1109/MIE.2011.943016. S2CID 45476055.
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Elhami Khorasani, A.; Griswold, M.; Alford, T. L. (2014). "Gate-Controlled Reverse Recovery for Characterization of LDMOS Body Diode". IEEE Electron Device Letters. 35 (11): 1079. Bibcode:2014IEDL...35.1079E. doi:10.1109/LED.2014.2353301. S2CID 7012254.
Roddick, R.G. (1962-10-01). "Tunnel Diode Circuit Analysis". doi:10.2172/4715062. OSTI 4715062. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
Jonscher, A. K. (1961). "The physics of the tunnel diode". British Journal of Applied Physics. 12 (12): 654. Bibcode:1961BJAP...12..654J. doi:10.1088/0508-3443/12/12/304.
Dowdey, J. E.; Travis, C. M. (1964). "An Analysis of Steady-State Nuclear Radiation Damage of Tunnel Diodes". IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. 11 (5): 55. Bibcode:1964ITNS...11...55D. doi:10.1109/TNS2.1964.4315475.
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Guarnieri, M. (2011). "Trailblazers in Solid-State Electronics". IEEE Ind. Electron. Mag. 5 (4): 46–47. Bibcode:2011IIEM....5d..46G. doi:10.1109/MIE.2011.943016. S2CID 45476055.
Elhami Khorasani, A.; Griswold, M.; Alford, T. L. (2014). "Gate-Controlled Reverse Recovery for Characterization of LDMOS Body Diode". IEEE Electron Device Letters. 35 (11): 1079. Bibcode:2014IEDL...35.1079E. doi:10.1109/LED.2014.2353301. S2CID 7012254.

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Diode reverse recovery in a boost converter Archived 2011-10-07 at the Wayback Machine. ECEN5817. ecee.colorado.edu
Inclusion of Switching Loss in the Averaged Equivalent Circuit Model Archived 2011-10-07 at the Wayback Machine. ECEN5797. ecee.colorado.edu
"Advanced Semiconductor, Inc" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-05-21. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
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Redhead, P. A. (1998-05-01). "The birth of electronics: Thermionic emission and vacuum". Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces, and Films. 16 (3): 1394–1401. Bibcode:1998JVSTA..16.1394R. doi:10.1116/1.581157. ISSN 0734-2101.

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