The predominant noise is

noise and consists of two parts: a) Noise varying as

, generated mostly with conducting channel and predominating for normal values of the collector voltage V
CE. b) Noise at low V
CEand practically independent of V
CE; it is generated chiefly in the space charge region around the base grating and gives collector

noise at

. The turnover frequency of the first noise source lies at about 20 MHz for

V,

V. At sufficiently high frequencies the PBT shows thermal noise of the output conductance

at zero bias. Generation-recombination noise is observed at large V
BEand low V
CEand comes mostly from the space charge region around the base grating.