Terahertz imaging with CMOS/BiCMOS process technologies

ESSCIRC 2010 - 36th European Solid State Circuits Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 52-60

  Pfeiffer, Ullrich R ^a   Öjefors, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMERGING APPLICATIONS; PROCESS TECHNOLOGIES; SILICON DEVICES; SILICON PROCESS TECHNOLOGY; TERAHERTZ ELECTRONICS; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCIES; TERAHERTZ IMAGING;

EID: 78650317600     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESSCIRC.2010.5619773     Document Type: Conference Paper

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