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A high peak power solid-state source for low duty cycle applications. (use of IMPATT /Impact Ionization Avalanche Transit Time~ diodes in high power microwave ... An article from: Microwave Journal
Bernard E. Sigmon

Microwave Engineering
David M. Pozar

Excerpt - page 521: "... performance at lower frequencies. More details on these and related diode devices can be found in the references. IMPATTdiodes. An IMPATT (Impact Avalanche and Transit Time) diode has a physical structure similar to a PIN diode, ..."
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Semiconductor Devices: Physics and Technology, 2nd Edition
Simon M. Sze

Excerpt - page 261: "... 261 8.3 IMPATT DIODE The name 11 l'ATT stands for impact ionization avalanche transit-time. IMPATT diodes employ impact ionization and transit-time properties of' semiconductor devices to ..."
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VLSI Fabrication Principles: Silicon and Gallium Arsenide, 2nd Edition
Sorab K. Ghandhi

Excerpt - page 8: "... the upper operating voltage of semiconductor devices. Devices such as Impact Avalanche Transit Time (IMPATT) diodes, which are important microwave power sources, are designed to operate ..."
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Telecommunication Circuits and Technology
Andrew Leven

Excerpt - page 356: "... Solid-state devices Two devices which overcome the major problem of transit time are the Gunn diode and the impact avalanche and transit time (IMPATT) diode. Both these devices use a negative resistance characteristic, i.e. ..."
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Electronic Technology Handbook
Neil Sclater

Excerpt - page 135: "... 50 GHz. It is also called a transferred-electron oscillator (TEO). IMPATT DIODES An IMPATT (impact avalanche transit time) diode exhibits negative resistance characteris- tics which result from a ..."
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Microwaves Made Simple: Principles and Applications (Artech House Microwave Library (Paperback))
W. Stephen Cheung and Frederic H. Levien

Excerpt - page 155: "... solid-state devices are reviewed first. Microwave devices such as Gunn diodes, IMPATT (impact avalanche transit time) diodes, tunnel diodes, and varactor diodes are then discussed. This ..."
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Gallium Arsenide : Key Papers in Physics, No1 (Key Papers in Applied Physics)
J BLAKEMORE

Excerpt - page 51: "... to 500 kV/cm. Electric fields that large are important for avalanche breakdown, as encountered in a reverse-biased P-Njunction, and as so utilized in avalanche photodiodes384 and in impact- avalanche transit time (IMPATT) diodes.385 Since the ioni- zation coefficient of electrons in GaAs for ..."
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Cumulative Subject Index Volumes 1-32 (Experimental Methods in the Physical Sciences)
Marc de Graef

Excerpt - page 148: "... Immersion spectrophotometry. 11, 67(1-671 Immunoassay. laser light scattering. 20, 319 Impact avalanche and transit time (IMPATT) diodes, 2A, 47, 67 mode, 26, 275-279 Impact collision ISS (IC'ISS). ..."
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Microwave Remote Sensing: Active and Passive, Volume I: Fundamentals and Radiometry
Fawwaz T. Ulaby

Excerpt - Back Matter: "... high frequency IF intermediate frequency IFOV instantaneous field of view IMPATT impact avalanche and transit time (diode) ITU International Telecommunication Union JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory ..."
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RF and Microwave Semiconductor Device Handbook
Mike Golio

Excerpt - page 31: "... for a semiconductor that demonstrates the transferred electron effect. 3.3.3 IMPATT Diodes 3-7 IMPATT (IMPact Avalanche Transit Time) diodes [31 are fabricated from pn or Schottky junctions. The ..."
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Physical Properties of Materials for Engineers
Daniel D. Pollock

Excerpt - page 483: "... js = j106 In other words, the Schottky diode saturation current density is about 106 times larger than that of an ... electrons are very short. 11.10.6.4 IMPATT Diodes An IMPATT diode (IMPact, Avalanche, Transit-Time diode) consists of a DC, reverse- bias, p-n junction in ..."
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Applications of High-Power Microwaves (Artech House Antennas and Propagation Library)
A. V. Gaponov-Grekhov and Victor L. Granatstein

Excerpt - page 5: "... silicon bipolar junction transistors, MESFET = metal semiconductor field-effect transistors, IMPATT = impact ionization avalanche transit time diodes, GUNN = Gunn diodes (also called transferred electron devices). (Figure ..."
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Handbook of Microwave Technology: Components and Devices (Handbook of Microwave Technology)
T. Koryu Ishii

Excerpt - page 280: "... design, the model parameters are usually evaluated by fitting the diode measured RF S-parameter data to ... a network analyzer. 5. Microwave IMPATT Diodes Introduction A microwave impact-ionization avalanche transit time (IMPATT) diode is a semiconductor diode that operates with a ..."
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The Materials Science of Microelectronics
K. J. Bachmann

Excerpt - page 181: "... discrete microwave devices are the transferred electron devices (TEDs), the impact avalanche transit time (IMPATT) diode, the trapped plasma avalanche triggered transit (TRAPATT) diode, the barrier ..."
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Microwave Devices, Circuits and Their Interaction (Wiley Series in Microwave and Optical Engineering)
Charles A. Lee and G. Conrad Dalman

Excerpt - page 180: "... at microwave and millimeter wavelengths with moderate efficiency is the IMPATT (impact avalanche transit time) diode. This diode is essentially an outgrowth of a proposal made ..."
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Physics of Semiconductor Devices Iwpsd-2003
International Workshop on the Physics of, K. N. Bhat, and A. Dasgupta

Excerpt - page 188: "... noise properties of the IMPATT diode are optimized. Further, the diode exhibits superior microwave properties over the GaAs homojunction IMPATT diode for that value of heterostructure layer width. 1. INTRODUCTION IMPact Avalanche Transit Time (IMPATT) diode is regarded as a premier source of microwave ..."
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Essential Analog Electronics
Owen Bishop

Excerpt - page 197: "... they are less mobile and the current is reduced. Gunn diodes are primarily used in microwave ... sensors, and related fields. The impact avalanche and transit time (IMPATT) diode is another negative resistance device but this is a ..."
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TV & Video Engineer's Reference Book
BORIS TOWNSEND and Kenneth Jackson

Excerpt - page 52: "... Gunn diodes, however, they operate in a reverse-current mode. Three-layer IMPATT (IMPact Avalanche Transit Time) diodes are biased so that the p'-n junction operates in the ..."
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Recombination in Semiconductors
Peter T. Landsberg

Excerpt - page 221: "... important as limiting the performance of semiconductor lasers [3.1.6], light-emitting diodes [3.1.7], and solar cells [3.1.8], ... Being the inverse process to impact ionization (section 2.1.1) avalanche devices (the photodiode, the impact avalanche transit time (IMPATT) diode, and hot electron devices) also utilize this type of ..."
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Microstrip Circuits (Wiley Series in Microwave and Optical Engineering)
Fred Gardiol

Excerpt - page 169: "... patch resonator (Section 7.1) is shown in Figure 9.14. 9.5.3 IMPATT Diode Oscillators A pn diode biased in the avalanche range with a drift region ... (Section 9.1.9). Introducing an IMPATT (impact avalanche transit-time) diode within a resonant structure Resonator 4425ezzo Solid-State Generator FIGURE ..."
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Microwave Communications Engineering Volume 1 Microwave Devices, Circuits and Subsystems
Ian A. Glover, Steve Pennock, and Peter Shepherd

Excerpt - page 59: "... oscillating configuration is shown in Figure 2.47, in which the diode load is composed of a ... CT + Cd C 2.8 IMPATT Diodes IMPATT (Impact Avalanche and Transit Time) diodes are very powerful microwave sources, providing the highest (solid ..."
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Principles of Optical Circuit Engineering (Optical Engineering)
Mark Mentzer

Excerpt - page 142: "... carriers due to the illumination. Optical Control of Active Devices IMPATT Oscillators One type of active ... PATT oscillator. IMPATT stands for IMPact Ionization Avalanche Transit Time. The IMPATT diode uses impact ionization to generate free carriers which then travel ..."
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Semiconductor Glossary: An Introduction to Semiconductor Terminology
Jerzy Ruzyllo

Excerpt - page 73: "... energy species with an atom in a lattice. electron-hole pair IMPATT diode Impact Ionization Avalanche Transit-Time; GaAs based high-performance microwave transit-time diode. transit - time diodes ..."
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Strained Silicon Heterostructures: Materials and Devices (Iee Circuits, Devices and Systems Series, 12)
N. B. Chakrabarti, S. K. Ray, and C. K. Maiti

Excerpt - page 1: "... III- V semiconductor developed for device use was GaAs. GaAs diodes found applications as varactors, Gunn diodes and impact ionization avalanche transit time diodes (IMPATTs). The GaAs metal semiconductor field effect transistor (MESFET) was the ..."
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Radio Engineering for Wireless Communication and Sensor Applications (Artech House Mobile Communications Series)
Antti V. Raisanen and Arto Lehto

Excerpt - page 176: "... a device with negative resistance is needed. Besides the tunnel diode, a Gunn diode and an impact ionization avalanche transit time (IMPATT) diode have a negative resistance region in their I-Vcharacteristics. The ..."
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Handbook of Radio and Wireless Technology
Stan Gibilisco

Excerpt - page 77: "... purposes, but voltage regulation of some sort is essential. An IMPATT diode is a microwave oscillating device like a Gunn diode. The acronym IMPATT comes from the words "impact avalanche transit time." An IMPATT diode can be used as an amplifier for ..."
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Photonic Aspects of Modern Radar (Artech House Radar Library)
Henry Zmuda and Edward N. Toughlian

Excerpt - page 264: "... pairs directly inside a microwave metal semiconductor FET (MESFET) or impact ionization avalanche transit time (IMPATT) diode in order to synchronize the device or to modify its ..."
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GaN and Related Materials II (Optoelectronic Properties of Semiconductors and Superlattices)
Stephen J. Pearton

Excerpt - page 348: "... On the other hand, in other device structures, such as avalanche photodiodes, APDs, and impact ionization avalanche transit time, IMPATT, diodes, avalanche multiplication provides a useful gain mechanism which boosts the ..."
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Process Technology for SIC Devices (EMIS Processing Series, 2) (Emis Processing Series, 2)
Carl-Mikael Zetterling

Excerpt - page 148: "... the filters and matching circuit [221. P + n n+ Impact ionisation avalanche transit-time (IMPATT) diodes n- X are, unlike high-voltage diodes, designed for and used ..."
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Doping in III-V Semiconductors (Cambridge Studies in Semiconductor Physics and Microelectronic Engineering)
E. F. Schubert

Excerpt - page 470: "... of mixer diodes and other applications. Furthermore, the planar barrier diode allows one to `tailor' the ... of the two intrinsic regions. IMPATT or impact avalanche transit time diodes are active devices used for microwave generation in the ..."
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Radio-Frequency and Microwave Communications Circuits: Analysis and Design
Devendra K. Misra and Devendra Misra

Excerpt - page 489: "... resolution even below 1 kHz while keeping the overall response time short by using additional loops. ... OSCILLATORS Properly biased Gunn and IMPATT (impact ionization avalanche transit time) diodes exhibit negative resistance characteristics that can be utilized in conjunction ..."
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Nonlinear Spatio-Temporal Dynamics and Chaos in Semiconductors
Eckehard Schöll

Excerpt - page 62: "... semiconductor devices that are used as microwave oscillators (the Gunn diode, resonant-tunneling diode, real-space transfer device, and impact-ionization avalanche transit time (IMPATT) diode) or electronic Figure 2.9. The hierarchy Reaction-diffusion equations wZ(r, ..."
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Encyclopedia of Telecommunications (Froehlich/Kent Encyclopedia of Telecommunications)
Fritz E. Froehlich and Allen Kent

Excerpt - page 3: "... higher power levels, while solid-state devices like microwave transistors, Gunn diodes, and IMPATT (impact ionization avalanche transit time) diodes are useful at lower-to- moderate power levels. Solid-state devices ..."
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Thin Film Technology Handbook
Aicha Eishabini-Riad, Fred D. Barlow, and ISHN

Excerpt - page 365: "... [402]. Other researchers found the maximum light output of laser diode arrays on diamond heat sinks ... use diamond heat sinks [406]. Impact ionization avalanche transit time (IMPATT) diodes operate in the 1 to 100 GHz frequency range. ..."
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