Planar MESFET Grid Oscillators Using Gate Feedback

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 1992, Pages 1997-2003

  Weikle, Robert M ^a   Kim, Moonil ^b   Hacker, Jonathan B ^b   De Lisio, Michael P ^b   Rutledge, David B ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MESFET DEVICES; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

FABRY-PEROT CAVITY; KU-BAND MESFET GRID; PLANAR MESFET GRID OSCILLATORS; QUASI-OPTICAL ARRAY; TRANSMISSION-LINE MODEL; X-BAND MESFET GRID;

MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS;

EID: 0026945371     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.168756     Document Type: Article

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