DocumentCode
930460
Title
Noise measure and temperature effect in small-signal GaAs IMPATT amplifiers
Author
Borgne, A. Le ; Perichon, R. ; Constant, E.
Author_Institution
Université des Sciences et Techniques, Villeneuve D´´Ascq, France
Volume
62
Issue
4
fYear
1974
fDate
4/1/1974 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
535
Lastpage
537
Abstract
For two kinds of GaAs IMPATT diodes (flat and two-step doping profile) it is shown that an improved experimental noise measure is obtained by increasing temperature. This can be chiefly explained by a large decrease of GaAs electron saturated drift velocity, as temperature is increased.
Keywords
Capacitance; Charge carrier processes; Electron emission; Electron traps; Energy states; Gallium arsenide; Gold; Noise measurement; Schottky diodes; Temperature measurement;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Proceedings of the IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9219
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/PROC.1974.9469
Filename
1451399
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