Progress toward solid-state local oscillators at 1 THz

IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 207-208

  Crowe, Thomas W ^a   Grein, Thomas C ^a   Zimmermann, Rüdiger ^b   Zimmermann, Peter ^b  

^a University of Virginia ^*  (United States)

^b Radiometer Physics GmbH (RPG)   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANODES; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; MULTIPLYING CIRCUITS; OPTIMIZATION; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; SEMICONDUCTING FILMS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; VARACTORS;

HIGHER EPITAXIAL DOPING DENSITY; VARACTOR MULTIPLIERS; VARACTOR TRIPLER;

SOLID STATE OSCILLATORS;

EID: 0030151172     PISSN: 10518207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/75.491507     Document Type: Article

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