A Planar Wideband 80-200 GHz Subharmonic Receiver

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 1993, Pages 1730-1737

  Kormanyos, Brian K ^a   Rebeiz, Gabriel M ^a   Ostdiek, Paul H ^b   Bishop, William L ^c   Crowe, Thomas W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; MILLIMETER WAVES; MIXER CIRCUITS; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES;

PLANAR WIDEBAND MIXERS; SUBHARMONIC RECEIVERS;

SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

EID: 0027681681     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.247918     Document Type: Article

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