MMIC applications of heterostructure interband tunnel devices

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 51, Issue 4 II, 2003, Pages 1351-1367

  Cidronali, Alessandro ^a   Nair, Vijay ^b   Collodi, Giovanni ^a   Lewis, Jonathan H ^b   Camprini, Matteo ^a   Manes, Gianfranco ^a   Goronkin, Herb ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Linear mixer; Low power; Monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC); Quantum well devices; RF identification (RF ID); Voltage controlled oscillator (VCO)

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DIODES; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MIXER CIRCUITS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); QUANTUM THEORY;

INTERBAND TUNNEL DEVICES;

MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0242669929     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2003.809175     Document Type: Article

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