Ultra-wideband source using gallium arsenide photoconductive semiconductor switches

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 327-334

  Schoenberg, Jon S H ^a   Burger, Jeffrey W ^a   Scott Tyo, J ^a   Abdalla, Michael D ^a   Skipper, Michael C ^a   Buchwald, Walter R ^a  

^a USAF   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA RADIATION; LASER PULSES; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; PHOTOCONDUCTING DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHES;

PULSE REPETITION RATE; ULTRAWIDEBAND PULSE GENERATORS;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 0031122428     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/27.602507     Document Type: Article

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