RF Performance of a Novel Planar Millimeter-Wave Diode Incorporating an Etched Surface Channel

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 1-5

  Garfield, Diane G ^a   Mattauch, Robert J ^b   Weinreb, Sander ^c  

^a Stanford Telecommunications Inc Reston   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MILLIMETER WAVES; RADIO TRANSMISSION;

ETCHED SURFACE CHANNEL; MILLIMETER WAVE DIODES; PLANAR AIR BRIDGE; RF PERFORMANCE; WHISKERLESS DIODE;

SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES;

EID: 0025757553     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.64597     Document Type: Article

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