Title :
New type of varactor diode having strongly nonlinear C/V characteristics
Author :
Shirota, Shozo ; Togawa, Yoshiyuki ; Kaneda, Shigeo
Author_Institution :
Osaka University, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Science, Toyonaka, Japan
Abstract :
Experimental studies of a new type of varactor diode consisting of a semiconductor multilayer structure have been performed. It is shown that such a varactor diode has much stronger nonlinearity in capacitance variation with applied bias voltage than does the conventional varactor, which will enable efficient generation of millimetre waves by direct frequency multiplication of high order.
Keywords :
varactors; capacitance variation; nonlinear C-V characteristics; semi conductor multilayer structure; varactor diode;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19770262
