A W-Band Integrated Power Module Using MMIC MESFET Power Amplifiers and Varactor Doublers

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 1993, Pages 2288-2294

  Ho, Thomas C ^a   Rice, Paul D ^b   Pande, Krishna ^a  

^a Image Processing Department   (United States)

^b Hercules Defense Electronics Systems Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY MULTIPLYING CIRCUITS; GAIN MEASUREMENT; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; MESFET DEVICES; MICROWAVE DEVICES; PERFORMANCE; POWER AMPLIFIERS; VARACTORS;

POWER MODULE; SCHOTTKY CONTACT VARACTOR; VARACTOR DOUBLERS;

MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0027814351     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.260719     Document Type: Article

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