This paper presents a comprehensive full-wave analysis of packaged nonlinear active microwave circuits by applying the extended finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. Based on the approach of using equivalent sources, the device–wave interaction is characterized and incorporated into the FDTD time-marching scheme. As a consequence, analysis of linear and nonlinear properties, including ha...

Hybrid integration of nanoplasmonic devices with silicon photonic circuits holds promise for a range of applications in on-chip sensing, field-enhanced and nonlinear spectroscopy, and integrated nanophotonic switches. Here, we demonstrate a new regime of photon-plasmon coupling by combining a silicon photonic resonator with plasmonic nanoantennas. Using principles from coherent perfect absorpti...

Wave-pipelining is a circuit design technique which allows digital synchronous systems to be clocked at rates higher than can be achieved with conventional pipelining techniques. Wave-pipelining has been successfully applied to the design of SSI processor functional units[l], a Bipolar Population Counter[S], a CMOS adder[lO], CMOS multipliers[3] [8], and several simple CMOS circuits. For contro...

extended interaction oscillators (eio) are vacuum electronic sources of microwave, millimeter-wave and terahertz radiations. in this paper, eio is investigated by using a circuit model. the value of the coupling element in the model is evaluated from the near band-edge dispersion characteristics of the rf structure. the end external loading of the interaction structure is equivalently modeled b...

Today, the use of CMOS technology for the manufacture of electronic ICs has faced many limitations. Many alternatives to CMOS technology are offered and made every day. Quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA) is one of the most widely used. QCA gates and circuits have many advantages including small size, low power consumption and high speed. On the other hand, using special digital gates called re...