It has been proposed that degradation of low current hFE, as a result of avalanching the emitter-base junction of a bipolar transistor, can be attributed to an increase in surface recombination velocity within the emitter-base space-charge region. This work shows that 1/fnoise is also increased during avalanche and that this increase is consistent with a previously reported correlation between surface recombination velocity and 1/fnoise.
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B.A. McDonald (1970) studied this question.
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