Modeling and design aspects of millimeter-wave and submillimeter-wave schottky diode varactor frequency multipliers

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 48, Issue , 2000, Pages 700-711

  Grajal, Jesus ^a   Krozer, Viktor ^b   González, Emilio ^a   Maldonado, Francisco ^a   Gismero, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Frequency multipliers; Harmonic balance technique; Numerical modeling; Schottky diode modeling; Semiconductor simulation; Submillimeter wave multipliers

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC BALANCE TECHNIQUE; REVERSE CURRENT FLOW; SEMICONDUCTOR SIMULATION; SUBMILLIMETER WAVE MULTIPLIERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; IMPACT IONIZATION; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; INTEGRATION; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; VARACTORS;

FREQUENCY MULTIPLYING CIRCUITS;

EID: 0034172451     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.841962     Document Type: Article

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