Some Tuning Characteristics and Oscillation Conditions of a Waveguide-Mounted Transferred-Electron Diode Oscillator

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 1972, Pages 1050-1055

  Eisenhart, Robert L ^a   Khan, Peter J ^b  

^a RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OSCILLATORS, MICROWAVE; WAVEGUIDES;

SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES;

EID: 0015387997     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-ED.1972.17543     Document Type: Article

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