Modeling and Design Aspects of Millimeter-Wave Schottky Varactor Frequency Multipliers

IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 387-389

  De La Fuente, Jesús Grajal ^a   Krozer, Viktor ^b   Martos, Francisco Maldonado ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Lehrst für Hochfrequenztechnik   (Germany)

Author keywords

Frequency multipliers; Nonlinear circuit analysis; Numerical modeling; Schottky diode modeling; Semiconductor simulation; Submillimeter wave multipliers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMPACT IONIZATION; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; NONLINEAR NETWORK ANALYSIS; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; VARACTORS;

MILLIMETER WAVE SCHOTTKY VARACTOR MULTIPLIERS;

FREQUENCY MULTIPLYING CIRCUITS;

EID: 0032208520     PISSN: 10518207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/75.736254     Document Type: Article

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