Opportunities for silicon at mmWave and Terahertz frequencies (invited)

Proceedings of the IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 149-156

  Pfeiffer, U R ^a   Ojefors E ^a   Lisauskas, A ^b   Roskos, H G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERA SYSTEMS; FOCAL-PLANE ARRAYS; IMAGING APPLICATIONS; IMAGING ARRAYS; KEY BUILDING BLOCKS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; RESPONSIVITY; SIGE PROCESS TECHNOLOGIES; SILICON PROCESS TECHNOLOGIES; TERAHERTZ; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCIES; TERAHERTZ TECHNOLOGIES;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 58049126251     PISSN: 10889299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BIPOL.2008.4662734     Document Type: Conference Paper

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