A high-power broadband passive terahertz frequency doubler in CMOS

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1150-1160

  Han, Ruonan ^a   Afshari, Ehsan ^a  

^a School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

CMOS; conversion efficiency; frequency doubler; passive; ring structure; signal source; terahertz; varactor

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC FILTERING; INPUT AND OUTPUTS; PASSIVE; RING STRUCTURES; SIGNAL SOURCE; TERA HERTZ; TERAHERTZ FREQUENCIES; UNSATURATED OUTPUT POWER;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; VARACTORS;

FREQUENCY DOUBLERS;

EID: 84874863115     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2013.2243465     Document Type: Article

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