Integrated Terahertz Transmitters and Receivers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5268, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-9

  Crowe, Thomas W ^a,b   Porterfield, David W ^a   Hesler, Jeffrey L ^a,b   Bishop, William L ^a,b   Kurtz, David S ^a  

^a VIRGINIA DIODES INC   (United States)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

CB detection; Mixers; Multipliers; Receivers; Terahertz; Transmitters

Indexed keywords

ENERGY TRANSITIONS; FREQUENCY RANGE; RELATIVE MOTION; TERAHERTZ TECHNOLOGY;

BROADBAND NETWORKS; GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; MIXER CIRCUITS; MULTIPLYING CIRCUITS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SPECTROSCOPY; TUNING;

TRANSMITTERS;

EID: 2142705387     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.517504     Document Type: Conference Paper

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