A wideband terahertz planar Schottky diode fourth-harmonic mixer with low LO power requirement

Yi-Lin YANG; Bo ZHANG; Dong-Feng JI; Yi-Wei WANG; Xiang-Yang ZHAO; Yong FAN

doi:10.11972/j.issn.1001-9014.2020.05.002

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