Thermal Characterization of Quasi-Vertical GaAs Schottky Diodes Integrated on Silicon Using Thermoreflectance and Electrical Transient Measurements

Thermal management and design have been understood, for many years, as critical factors in the implementation of submillimeter-wave Schottky-diode-based circuits and instruments. Removal of heat is particularly important for frequency multipliers, as these circuits generally exhibit low-to-modest conversion efficiencies, and are usually driven with high-power sources to achieve usable output power in the submillimeter-wave region of the...