100–300 GHz Gunn Oscillator Simulation Through Harmonic Balance Circuit Analysis Linked to a Hydrodynamic Device Simulator

IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 1994, Pages 282-284

  Zybura, M F ^a   Jones, S H ^a   Tait, G B ^b   Jones, J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b Electronics Sci and Technol Div   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALCULATIONS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DIFFUSION; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; HEAT TRANSFER; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIMULATORS; THERMOANALYSIS;

DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; HARMONIC BALANCE CIRCUIT ANALYSIS; HYDRODYNAMIC DEVICE SIMULATOR; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT DRIFT; TRANSFERRED ELECTRON OSCILLATORS;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 0028485895     PISSN: 10518207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/75.311499     Document Type: Article

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