A Circuit Technique for Broadbanding the Electronic Tuning Range of Gunn Oscillators

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1977, Pages 21-28

  Aitchison, Colin S ^a   Gelsthorpe, Robert V ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OSCILLATORS, MICROWAVE;

OSCILLATORS, GUNN;

EID: 0017453625     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: 1558173X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.1977.1050836     Document Type: Article

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