The definitive hands-on guide to heterojunction bipolar transistors In recent years, heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) technology has become an intensely researched area in universities and industry worldwide. Boasting superior performance over silicon bipolar transistors with its combined high speed, high linearity, and high power requirements, the III-V HBT is fast becoming a major player in wireless communication, power amplifiers, mixers, and frequency synthesizers. Handbook of III-V Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors presents a comprehensive, systematic reference for this cutting-edge technology. In one self-contained volume, it covers virtually every HBT topic imaginable--introductory and advanced, theoretical and practical--from device physics, to design issues, to HBT performance in digital and analog circuits. It features: * A user-friendly, integrated approach to HBTs and circuit design that can be applied in diverse disciplines * A discussion of factors determining transistor operation, including thermal properties, failure mechanisms, high-frequency measurements and models, switching characteristics, noise and distortion, and modern device fabrications * Over 800 illustrations, showing how to use concepts and equations in the real world * An introduction to device physics and semiconductor basics * Many worked-out examples and end-of-chapter problem sets * Fully developed mathematical derivations Handbook of III-V Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors is an important reference for practicing engineers and researchers in cellular wireless communication and microwave-millimeter electronics as well as for wireless circuit design engineers. It is also extremely useful for advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying advanced semiconductor and microwave circuits.

Handbook of III-V Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Liu, William

Mental Health

Wiley-Interscience

A systematic, accessible introduction to III-V semiconductor devices With this handy book, readers seeking to understand semiconductor devices based on III-V materials no longer have to wade through difficult review chapters focusing on a single, novel aspect of the technology. Well-known industry expert William Liu presents here a systematic, comprehensive treatment at an introductory level. Without assuming even a basic course in device physics, he covers the dc and high-frequency operations of all major III-V devices-heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs), metal-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MESFETs), and the heterojunction field-effect transistors (HFETs), which include the high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs). An excellent introduction for researchers and circuit designers working on wireless communications equipment, Fundamentals of III-V Devices offers a variety of features, including: * An introductory chapter on the basic properties, growth process, and device physics of III-V materials * Coverage of both dc and high-frequency models, integrating aspects of device physics and circuit design * A discussion of transistor fabrication and device comparison * 55 worked-out examples illustrating design considerations for a given application * 215 figures and end-of-chapter practice problems * Appendices listing parameters for various materials and transistor types

Fundamentals of III-V Devices: HBTs, MESFETs, and HFETs/HEMTs

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

A systematic, accessible introduction to III-V semiconductor devices With this handy book, readers seeking to understand semiconductor devices based on III-V materials no longer have to wade through difficult review chapters focusing on a single, novel aspect of the technology. Well-known industry expert William Liu presents here a systematic, comprehensive treatment at an introductory level. Without assuming even a basic course in device physics, he covers the dc and high-frequency operations of all major III-V devices-heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs), metal-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MESFETs), and the heterojunction field-effect transistors (HFETs), which include the high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs). An excellent introduction for researchers and circuit designers working on wireless communications equipment, Fundamentals of III-V Devices offers a variety of features, including: * An introductory chapter on the basic properties, growth process, and device physics of III-V materials * Coverage of both dc and high-frequency models, integrating aspects of device physics and circuit design * A discussion of transistor fabrication and device comparison * 55 worked-out examples illustrating design considerations for a given application * 215 figures and end-of-chapter practice problems * Appendices listing parameters for various materials and transistor types

Fundamentals of III-V Devices, Solutions Manual: HBTs, MESFETs, and HFETs/HEMTs

An expert guide to understanding and making optimum use of BSIM Used by more chip designers worldwide than any other comparable model, the Berkeley Short-Channel IGFET Model (BSIM) has, over the past few years, established itself as the de facto standard MOSFET SPICE model for circuit simulation and CMOS technology development. Yet, until now, there have been no independent expert guides or tutorials to supplement the various BSIM manuals currently available. Written by a noted expert in the field, this book fills that gap in the literature by providing a comprehensive guide to understanding and making optimal use of BSIM3 and BSIM4. Drawing upon his extensive experience designing with BSIM, William Liu provides a brief history of the model, discusses the various advantages of BSIM over other models, and explores the reasons why BSIM3 has been adopted by the majority of circuit manufacturers. He then provides engineers with the detailed practical information and guidance they need to master all of BSIM's features. He: <ul>
<li>Summarizes key BSIM3 components</li> <li>Represents the BSIM3 model with equivalent circuits for various operating conditions</li> <li>Provides a comprehensive glossary of modeling terminology</li> <li>Lists alphabetically BSIM3 parameters along with their meanings and relevant equations</li> <li>Explores BSIM3's flaws and provides improvement suggestions</li> <li>Describes all of BSIM4's improvements and new features</li> <li>Provides useful SPICE files, which are available online at the Wiley ftp site</li> </ul>

MOSFET Models for SPICE Simulation: Including BSIM3v3 and BSIM4

Wiley-IEEE Press

Modernity as Experience and Interpretation

We are all modern today. But modernity today is not what it used to be. Over the past few decades, modernity has been radically changed by globalization, individualization, new inequalities, and fundamentalism. A novel way of analysing contemporary societies is needed. This book proposes such an analysis. 
Every society seeks answers to certain basic questions: how to order life in common; how to satisfy human needs; how to establish knowledge. Sociology long assumed that the answers had been found once and for all: a liberal-democratic state, a market economy, and free scientific institutions. This trinity used to be called ‘modern society’. By contrast, this book is based on the idea that, under conditions of modernity, there are no stable and certain answers to these questions. There is a plurality of possible answers, every proposed answer can be criticized and contested, and every society needs to find its answer on its own. This new sociology of modernity proposes two key instruments through which to understand the answers given to those questions: the experiences human beings have of their own modernity and the interpretations they give to those experiences. It reviews the history of ‘Western’ modernity in this light and then focuses on the specific answers that were and are being developed in Europe.

History

Ethnic and Multicultural Drug Abuse: Perspectives on Current Research

Here in one volume is a compilation of cutting-edge research in the field of drug abuse research with specific ethnic-minority groups. This book suggests effective ways to conduct research and enhance research opportunities with such groups. Ethnic and Multicultural Drug Abuse includes summaries of ethnic-minority drug abuse literature and identifies knowledge gaps, highlighting areas in need of more research. The authors, most from African-American, American Indian, Asian Pacific-American, or Hispanic backgrounds, discuss topics related to the research development process, report research findings, and make research recommendations for African-Americans. They cover drug abuse research issues existing mainly among Asian Pacific-Americans and Hispanics and drug use patterns among a sample of American Indian youth and Alaskan youth. Throughout the book, informative chapters 
<ul>
<li>present guidelines for preparing competitive research proposals </li>
<li>focus on studies of the major ethnic-minority groups </li>
<li>examine adolescents and the homeless </li>
<li>discuss theory and development </li>
<li>provide extensive bibliographies for continuing research and studyAn excellent guide for facilitating the organization of a drug abuse research project emphasizing ethnic-minority issues, this much-needed book is a welcome resource for all professionals coping with the on-going struggle against drug abuse. It is a state-of-the-art book, full of helpful, practical information for counselors, researchers in the fields of mental health, drugs, and alcohol, and policy planners and administrators in the substance abuse field. Not only a guide and inspiration to persons contemplating a career in drug abuse research, Ethnic and Multicultural Drug Use serves as a useful training tool to assist in educating prospective drug abuse researchers at the graduate and upper level undergraduate levels.</li>
</ul>

Trimble, Joseph

Parenting & Relationships

Routledge

Reference

In 1928, Grace Divine, daughter of a conservative Chattanooga family, came to New York City, accompanied by her mother, to study opera singing. Liu Fu-chi, a scholarship student studying engineering at Columbia, lived in the same building. They met. They became friends. Only after Fu-chi left for further study in Germany did they realize they had fallen in love. Fu-chi renounced his scholarship and returned to New York. They became engaged. An interracial marriage was illegal in Tennessee; her brothers came to intervene. Nonetheless, in 1932 at the height of the Depression, Grace and Fu-chi went to City Hall and were married. He left for China to look for a job. Pregnant, Grace stayed behind. Then, when the baby could travel, she went to join her husband in Tientsin. She was to remain in China for the next forty years, through the Japanese Occupation, the fall of the Nationalist Government and the Cultural Revolution. This biography, composed in large part of Grace Liu's letters and the memoir she began, has been compiled by her cousin, Eleanor McCallie Cooper, who lives in Chattanooga and her surviving child, William Liu, who now lives in Vancouver.

Grace: An American Woman's Forty Years in China, 1934-1974

Biographies & Memoirs

Cooper, Eleanor McCallie

Community & Culture

Soho Press

"The extraordinary life of a courageous, outspoken American woman who survived forty years of upheaval in twentieth-century China . . . A unique perspective on a period of -critical transformations in China."—Kirkus Reviews "Reads like a riveting and complex novel. Set against the fascinating backdrop of China during the Cultural Revolution, it is the story of a strong woman who followed her heart against the odds."—Lee Smith, The Last Girls Eleanor McCallie Cooper lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee. William Liu, Grace’s only surviving child, teaches at Simon Frasier University in Vancouver.

Grace: An American Woman in China, 1934-1974

life in China by an American woman, in the crucial time period of 1934 to 1974

Grace in China: An American Woman Beyond the Great Wall, 1934-1974

Cooper, Eleanor

River City Pub

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Handbook of III-V Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors

Fundamentals of III-V Devices: HBTs, MESFETs, and HFETs/HEMTs

Fundamentals of III-V Devices, Solutions Manual: HBTs, MESFETs, and HFETs/HEMTs

MOSFET Models for SPICE Simulation: Including BSIM3v3 and BSIM4

Fundamentals of III-V Devices: HBTs, MESFETs, and HFETs/HEMTs

Ethnic and Multicultural Drug Abuse: Perspectives on Current Research

Ethnic and Multicultural Drug Abuse: Perspectives on Current Research

Grace: An American Woman's Forty Years in China, 1934-1974

Grace: An American Woman in China, 1934-1974

Grace in China: An American Woman Beyond the Great Wall, 1934-1974