Active and Nonlinear Wave Propagation Devices in Ultrafast Electronics and Optoelectronics

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 82, Issue 7, 1994, Pages 1037-1059

  Rodwell, Mark J W ^a   Allen, Scott T ^a   Bhattacharya, Uddalak ^a   Reddy, Madhukar ^a   Pullela, Rajasekhar ^a   Kamegawa, Masayuki ^a   Konishi, Yoshiyuki ^a   Yu, Ruai Y ^b   Case, Michael G ^c   Carman, Eric ^d   Pusl, Joe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ROCKWELL SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^d MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE NETWORKS; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTRIC WAVEFORMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; FREQUENCY MULTIPLYING CIRCUITS; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; MILLIMETER WAVES; NONLINEAR NETWORKS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS; TUNNEL DIODES;

PICOSECOND OPTICAL WAVEFORM MEASUREMENT; SAMPLING CIRCUITS; SHOCKWAVE NONLINEAR TRANSMISSION LINES; ULTRAFAST ELECTRONIC;

MICROWAVE DEVICES;

EID: 0028464668     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.293161     Document Type: Article

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