A High-Gain Monolithic D-Band InP HEMT Amplifier

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1219-1224

  Pobanz, Carl W ^a   Matloubian, M ^a   Lui, M ^a   Sun, H C ^a   Case, Michael ^a   Ngo, C M ^a   Janke, P ^a   Gaier, Todd ^b,c   Samoska, Lorene ^b,d  

^a Hughes Aircraft Co   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Coplanar waveguides; III V semiconductors; Indium compounds; Integrated circuit design; Millimeter wave amplifiers; Millimeter wave measurements; Modulation doped field effect transistor (MODFET); Monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003246874     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.782079     Document Type: Article

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