Millimeter-wave Monolithic Integrated Circuit Characterization by a Picosecond Optoelectronic Technique

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 1989, Pages 1223-1231

  Hung, Hing Loi A ^a   Polak Dingels, Penny ^b   Webb, Kevin J ^c   Smith, Thane ^a   Huang, Ho C ^a   Lee, Chi H ^c  

^a Image Processing Department   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; MICROSTRIP DEVICES--APPLICATIONS; PHOTOCONDUCTING DEVICES--APPLICATIONS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE--APPLICATIONS;

BROADBAND MEASUREMENTS; MEASURED TIME DOMAIN RESPONSE; PHOTOCONDUCTIVE SWITCHES; PICOSECOND OPTOELECTRONIC TECHNIQUE; SPECTRAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS, MONOLITHIC;

EID: 0024714557     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.31083     Document Type: Article

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