Transientsimulation of millimeter-wave circuits incorporating numerical device modeling

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 47, Issue 6 PART 2, 1999, Pages 877-881

  Tait, Gregory B ^a   Jones, Stephen H ^b  

^a Virginia Commonwealth University   (United States)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

Global modeling; Millimeter wave oscillators

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; GUNN DEVICES; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; RADIO WAVES; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; SOLID STATE DEVICES;

GLOBAL MODELING; MILLIMETER WAVE OSCILLATORS; TRANSFERRED ELECTRON OSCILLATOR;

MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS;

EID: 0033365671     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.769321     Document Type: Article

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