Frequency Multipliers for Millimeter and Submillimeter Wavelengths

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 80, Issue 11, 1992, Pages 1842-1852

  Raisanen, Antti V ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 0001427311     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.175259     Document Type: Article

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