Silicon Schottky diode power converters beyond 100 GHz

Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 547-550

  Mishra, C ^a,b   Pfeiffer, U ^a,c   Rassel, R ^d   Reynolds, S ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^d IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

Frequency doubler; Millimeter wave power generation; Schottky barrier diode; Sub harmonic mixer

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; FREQUENCY DOUBLERS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

CONVERSION LOSS; MILLIMETER WAVE POWER GENERATION; SUB-HARMONIC MIXER;

SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES;

EID: 34748827916     PISSN: 15292517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFIC.2007.380943     Document Type: Conference Paper

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