Demonstration of a 311-GHz fundamental oscillator using InP HBT technology

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2329-2334

  Radisic, Vesna ^a,b   Sawdai, Donald ^a,b   Scott, Dennis ^a,b   Deal, William R ^a,b   Dang, Linh ^b   Li, Danny ^b   Chen, John ^b   Fung, Andy ^c   Samoska, Lorene ^a,c   Gaier, Todd ^c   Lai, Richard ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

HBT; Millimeter wave; Monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC); Oscillator; Sub millimeter wave

Indexed keywords

INJECTION LOCKING; PRIMARY TRANSMISSION; SUB MILLIMETER WAVE;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 36749103786     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2007.907722     Document Type: Article

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