A calculation is made of the effect of low-level impact ionisation on the power available from GaAs MESFETs. For typical FET structures it is shown that close to 1 W per mm of gate width is expected, but that deep levels in the range 1–5×1021 m−3 can noticeably reduce that figure.
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P.H. Ladbrooke (1981) studied this question.