Some Fundamental and Practical Limits on Broadband Matching to Capacitive Devices, and the Implications for SIS Mixer Design

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 2-13

  Kerr, A R ^a  

^a NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CAPACITANCE; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

BROADBAND CIRCUITS; BROADBAND MATCHING; CAPACITIVE MICROWAVE DEVICES; MATCH BANDWIDTH LIMITS;

MIXER CIRCUITS;

EID: 0029219796     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.363015     Document Type: Article

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