Electro-thermal Simulation Studies of Single-event Burnout in Power Diodes
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ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I express my utmost gratitude towards Prof. Greg Walker for providing me an opportunity to work with him on this project. I am grateful to him for his guidance and encouragement at various phases of this project. Special word of thanks goes to Prof. Ronald Schrimpf for his invaluable guidance during this work and important thoughts at all stages.Badri, with whom I had fruitful discussions on certain aspects of this work.
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