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Term: avalanche breakdown (of a PN junction)
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Definition: breakdown that is caused by the cumulative multiplication of charge carriers in a semi-conductor under the action of a strong electric field which causes some carriers to gain enough energy to liberate new hole-electron pairs by ionization


Publication date:2002-05
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