Design and Performance of X-Band Oscillators with GaAs Schottky-Gate Field-Effect Transistors

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 1975, Pages 661-667

  Maeda, Minoru ^a   Kimura, Katsuhiro ^a   Kodera, Hiroshi ^a  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OSCILLATORS, SOLID STATE; TRANSISTORS, FIELD EFFECT;

OSCILLATORS, MICROWAVE;

EID: 0016543436     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.1975.1128645     Document Type: Article

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