Gaas Nonlinear Transmission Lines for Picosecond Pulse Generation and Millimeter-Wave Sampling

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 1991, Pages 1194-1204

  Rodwell, Mark J W ^a   Kamegawa, Masayuki ^a,b   Yu, Ruai ^a   Case, Michael ^a   Carman, Eric ^a   Giboney, Kirk S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SHIMADZU CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED CIRCUITS, MONOLITHIC; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; SHOCK WAVES;

NONLINEAR TRANSMISSION LINES; PICOSECOND PULSE GENERATION; SCHOTTKY CONTACTS; SHOCK-WAVE GENERATORS;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 0026189299     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.85387     Document Type: Article

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