barrier injection transit-time diode
barrier injection transit-time diode
[′bar·ē·ər in′jek·shən ′trans·ət ‚tīm ′dī‚ōd] (electronics)
A microwave diode in which the carriers that traverse the drift region are generated by minority carrier injection from a forward-biased junction instead of being extracted from the plasma of an avalanche region. Abbreviated BARITT diode.
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