High-efficiency heterostructure-barrier-varactor frequency triplers using AlN substrates

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 443-446

  Xiao, Qun ^a   Hesler, Jeffrey L ^a   Crowe, Thomas W ^a   Weikle II, Robert M ^a   Duan, Yiwei ^a   Deaver, Bascom S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aluminum Nitride; Frequency tripler; Heterostructure Barrier Varactor; Millimeter wave; Source; Thermal analysis

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM NITRIDE; ENERGY DISSIPATION; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; THERMOANALYSIS; VARACTORS;

FREQUENCY MULTIPLIER DESIGN; HETEROSTUCTURE-BARRIER-VARACTOR (HBV); SOLID-STATE DEVICES; SOURCE;

FREQUENCY TRIPLERS;

EID: 33749256847     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2005.1516624     Document Type: Conference Paper

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