• DocumentCode
    888824
  • Title

    The negative gamma varactor

  • Author

    Grayzel, A.I.

  • Volume
    55
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1967
  • fDate
    3/1/1967 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    469
  • Lastpage
    470
  • Abstract
    This letter gives efficiency and power handling capacities of frequency doublers and up-converters for negative values of γ where S(V) = V1/γ. It is shown that negative values of γ yield greater efficiencies than varactors with γ = 1/2, 1/3, and 0 which are commonly used.
  • Keywords
    Breakdown voltage; Capacitance; Cutoff frequency; Diodes; Electric breakdown; Performance gain; Power generation; Varactors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Proceedings of the IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9219
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/PROC.1967.5555
  • Filename
    1447485