Measurement of series resistance in IMPATT diodes

A new method is given for determining the electrical series resistance of an IMPATT diode. The measurement is based on observation of the oscillation threshold bias current for a diode in a standard circuit. The method is applied to GaAs diodes near 40 GHz. The values obtained are used to quantitati...

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Published inIEEE transactions on electron devices Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 179 - 182
Main Authors Adlerstein, M.G., Holway, L.H., Chu, S.L.G.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.02.1983
Subjects
Frequency measurement
Integrated circuit modeling
Oscillators
Radio frequency
Resistance
Semiconductor device modeling
Three-dimensional displays
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Summary:A new method is given for determining the electrical series resistance of an IMPATT diode. The measurement is based on observation of the oscillation threshold bias current for a diode in a standard circuit. The method is applied to GaAs diodes near 40 GHz. The values obtained are used to quantitatively explain other performance characteristics of the diodes.
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ISSN:0018-9383
1557-9646
DOI:10.1109/T-ED.1983.21092