A novel 3-D integrated HFET/RTD frequency multiplier

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 650-653

  Auer, Uwe ^a,b   Prost, Werner ^a   Janßen, Guido ^a   Agethen, Michael ^a   Reuter, Ralf ^a   Tegude, F J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b GMUD

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; HARMONIC GENERATION; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; TUNNEL DIODES;

HETEROSTRUCTURE FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR (HFET); MICROWAVE DESIGN SOFTWARE (MDS); RESONANT TUNNELING DIODE (RTD);

FREQUENCY MULTIPLYING CIRCUITS;

EID: 0030230112     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.571764     Document Type: Article

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