High Efficiency and Output Power from Second- and Third-Harmonic Millimeter-Wave InP-TED Oscillators at Frequencies Above 170 GHz

IEEE Electron Device Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 1990, Pages 439-441

  Rydberg, Anders ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC GENERATION; MILLIMETER WAVES; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

MILLIMETER WAVE OSCILLATORS; TRANSFERRED ELECTRON DEVICE OSCILLATORS;

OSCILLATORS, GUNN;

EID: 0025507796     PISSN: 07413106     EISSN: 15580563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/55.62989     Document Type: Article

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