A super-dynamic flip-flop circuit for broad-band applications up to 24 Gb/s utilizing production-level 0.2-μm GaAs MESFET's

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1357-1362

  Otsuji, Taiichi ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Yoneyama, Mikio ^a,b,c,f,g   Murata, Koichi ^a,b,c,f,h   Sano, Eiichi ^a,b,c,f,i  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c NTT Optical Netwk Syst Labs ^*

^d KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f Institute of Electronics   (Japan)

^g KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flip flop; MESFET integrated circuit; Optical fiber communication

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; BUFFER CIRCUITS; FREQUENCY DIVIDING CIRCUITS; MESFET DEVICES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; TIMING CIRCUITS;

DECISION CIRCUITS;

FLIP FLOP CIRCUITS;

EID: 0031238155     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.628739     Document Type: Article

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