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Heterostructure Field-Effect Transistors

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Physics of High-Speed Transistors

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William Shockley first proposed a heterojunction device [1] and in the same year Gubanov [2] began examining heterojunction theory. On the heels of these appeared many works, a number of monographs (see, e.g., [3–6]), and several international conferences dealing with the physics of heterojunctions.

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