Nature and Characteristics of a Voltage-Biased Varistor and its Embedded Transistor

An unorthodox approach for producing simple and yet practical transistors based on ceramic platforms is discussed in this paper. To achieve this, we modify the original nonlinear current-voltage (I-V) characteristics of a varistor by superimposing a biasing voltage (V<sub>b</sub>). This...

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Main Authors: Raghvendra K. Pandey, William A. Stapleton, Ivan Sutanto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2015-01-01
Series:IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7055214/