Possibility of silicon monolithic millimeterwave integrated circuits

Engineering & Materials Science

• Monolithic integrated circuits 100%
• Silicon 51%
• Millimeter waves 43%
• Germanium 29%
• Microwave frequencies 28%
• Dielectric losses 27%
• Heterojunction bipolar transistors 25%
• Microstrip lines 24%
• Integrated circuits 20%
• Fabrication 16%

Physics & Astronomy

• integrated circuits 62%
• millimeter waves 43%
• silicon 35%
• tradeoffs 25%
• bipolar transistors 23%
• microwave frequencies 22%
• dielectric loss 20%
• germanium 19%
• heterojunctions 19%
• electrical resistivity 13%
• fabrication 13%