Low-Parasitic, Planar Schottky Diodes for Millimeter-Wave Integrated Circuits

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1990, Pages 15-22

  Archer, John W ^a   Batchelor, Robert A ^a   Smith, C J ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES, SCHOTTKY BARRIER; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES--FABRICATION; VARACTORS;

MILLIMETER WAVE IC; MIXER DIODES; MOTT DIODES; PLANAR SCHOTTKY DIODES; VARACTOR DIODES;

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS, MONOLITHIC;

EID: 0025227049     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.44151     Document Type: Article

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