DocumentCode
912627
Title
Thermal effects and pulse mode operation of IMPATT diodes
Author
Chudobiak, W.J.
Volume
58
Issue
6
fYear
1970
fDate
6/1/1970 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
935
Lastpage
936
Abstract
The peak output power and efficiency of a silicon IMPATT diode operating in the CW and pulse modes are compared. It is shown that because of thermal effects, the peak pulse output power for a given bias current is less than the CW output power for the same bias level.
Keywords
Convergence; Diodes; Filtering theory; Frequency; Insertion loss; Poles and zeros; Polynomials; Power generation; Silicon; Transfer functions;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Proceedings of the IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9219
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/PROC.1970.7815
Filename
1449745
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