Asymmetric resonant tunnelling diodes as microwave detectors
Abstract
Multilayer resonant tunneling diodes with asymmetric current-voltage characteristics and the first measurements of such devices as microwave detectors are reported. Their performance is compared with that of conventional detectors in terms of the transfer function and its temperature dependence. In particular a variation of output voltage as low as + or - 0.3 dB over -40 C to +80 C was found.
- Publication:
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Electronics Letters
- Pub Date:
- October 1990
- DOI:
- 10.1049/el:19901226
- Bibcode:
- 1990ElL....26.1904S
- Keywords:
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- Microwave Equipment;
- Resonant Tunneling;
- Signal Detectors;
- Tunnel Diodes;
- Volt-Ampere Characteristics;
- Molecular Beam Epitaxy;
- Temperature Dependence;
- Transfer Functions;
- Communications and Radar