A MODFET-Based Optoelectronic Integrated Circuit Receiver for Optical Interconnects

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 1993, Pages 1406-1416

  Ketterson, Andrew A ^a,b   Seo, Jong Wook ^a   Tong, Minh H ^a   Nummila, Kari L ^a   Morikuni, James J ^a   Cheng, Keh Yung ^a   Kang, Sung Mo ^a   Adesida, Ilesanmi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

MODULATION DOPED FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS (MODFET); PHOTORECEIVERS; SILICON NITRIDE PASSIVATION LAYER; TRANSIMPEDANCE AMPLIFIER;

OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES;

EID: 0027643739     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: 15579646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.223699     Document Type: Article

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