A 100-Element HBT Grid Amplifier

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 1993, Pages 1762-1771

  Kim, Moonil ^a   Hacker, Jonathan B ^a   De Lisio, Michael P ^a   Chiao, Jung Chih ^a   Li, Shi Jie ^a   Rutledge, David B ^a   Sovero, Emilio A ^b   Gagnon, David R ^c   Rosenberg, James J ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Rockwell International   (United States)

^c NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^d HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; LENSES; MODULATION;

GRID AMPLIFIERS; MODULATION INDEX;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 0027682428     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.247921     Document Type: Article

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