Highly efficient harmonically tuned InP D-HBT push-push oscillators operating up to 287 GHz

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 341-344

  Baeyens, Y ^a   Weimann, N ^a   Houtsma, V ^a   Weiner, J ^a   Yang, Y ^a   Frackoviak, J ^a   Roux, P ^a   Tate, A ^a   Chen, Y K ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipolar transistor oscillators; Heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs); Millimeter wave oscillators

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; TUNING;

BIPOLAR TRANSISTOR OSCILLATORS; COLPITIS TOPOLOGY; SECOND HARMONIC SIGNAL;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 34748859851     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2007.380440     Document Type: Conference Paper

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