Title :
Computer Simulation of Switching in Microwave Pin Diodes
Author :
Profirescu, M.D.
Author_Institution :
Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, United Kingdom on leave from The Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politechnical Institute of Bucharest, Romania
Abstract :
Computer simulations have been carried out of switching behaviour and design optimization of microwave PIN structures used in millimetre-wave communications. The simulation operates in the time domain and uses an implicit iterative method to obtain the internal distributions and terminal response of PIN diodes in a simple, but realistic circuit. The use of the program as a research tool aimed to the understanding of the internal processes, and also as a design tool for the optimization of the diode structure, will be presented together with a comparison of the computed results with those measured experimentally.
Keywords :
Charge carrier lifetime; Communication switching; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Design optimization; Diodes; Electric variables measurement; Electromagnetic heating; Nonlinear equations; Uncertainty;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Conference, 1974. 4th European
Conference_Location :
Montreux, Switzerland
DOI :
10.1109/EUMA.1974.332079
