Millimeter wave varistor mode schottky diode frequency doubler in CMOS

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 173-175

  Mao, Chuying ^a   Sankaran, Swaminathan ^b,c   Seok, Eunyoung ^b,c   Nallani, Chakravartula Shashank ^b,d   Kenneth, K O ^a  

^a J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

^d BROADCOM CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

CMOS; Frequency doubler; Millimeter wave (MMW); Schottky barrier diode

Indexed keywords

DIODES; FREQUENCY DOUBLERS; MILLIMETER WAVES; VARISTORS;

CMOS; CONVERSION LOSS; DOUBLERS; INPUT MATCHING; MILLIMETER-WAVE (MMW); MM WAVES; OUTPUT POWER; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODE; SCHOTTKY DIODES;

SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES;

EID: 62549086564     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2009.2013744     Document Type: Article

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