Effects of self-heating on planar heterostructure barrier varactor diodes

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 2298-2303

  Stake, Jan ^b   Dillner, Lars ^b   Jones, Stephen H ^a,c   Mann, Chris ^d   Thornton, John ^d   Robert Jones, J ^a,e   Bishop, William L ^a,c   Kollberg, Erik ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^e Anadigics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterostructure barrier varactor; Self heating; Varactor frequency tripler

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY CONVERTER CIRCUITS; HEAT RESISTANCE; HETEROJUNCTIONS; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; THERMAL EFFECTS;

HETEROSTRUCTURE BARRIER VARACTORS (HBV); VARACTOR FREQUENCY TRIPLERS;

VARACTORS;

EID: 0032205526     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/16.726644     Document Type: Article

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