On the Development of a High Efficiency 750 GHz Frequency Tripler for THz Heterodyne Systems

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 1992, Pages 827-830

  Rydberg, Anders ^a,b   Lyons, Brendan N ^a   Lidholm, Sverre U ^a  

^a Farran Technology Ltd   (Ireland)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OSCILLATORS, SOLID STATE; VARACTORS;

FREQUENCY TRIPLER; LOCAL OSCILLATORS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; SUPERCONDUCTING MIXERS; TERAHERTZ TECHNOLOGY;

ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS, FREQUENCY MULTIPLYING;

EID: 0026866165     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.137386     Document Type: Article

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