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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61704127, 61574171, 11175138). Thanks for the Institute of Microelectronics, Tsinghua University. Thanks for China Institute of Atomic Energy.
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Zhang, J., Guo, H., Zhang, F. et al. Heavy ion micro-beam study of single-event transient (SET) in SiGe heterjunction bipolar transistor. Sci. China Inf. Sci. 60, 120404 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-017-9249-6
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