A unified, CAD-oriented approach for the physics-based large-signal conversion and noise modelling of microwave and mm-wave semiconductor devices

摘要

The paper presents a new, CAD-oriented approach for the physics-based conversion and noise modelling of a nonlinear semiconductor device operated in (quasi) periodic regime in the microwave and mm-wave range. After a short review of the physics-based frequency conversion and noise theory, results are presented for a varactor diode frequency multiplier and compared with circuit models derived from small-signal and DC simulations.