Millimeter-Wave On-Wafer Waveform and Network Measurements Using Active Probes

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 721-729

  Yu, Ruai Y ^a   Reddy, Madhukar ^a   Pusl, Joe ^a,b   Allen, Scott T ^a   Case, Michael ^a,c   Rodwell, Mark J W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^c Hughes Aircraft Co   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYZERS; ELECTRIC NETWORK PARAMETERS; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; PROBES; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES;

ACTIVE PROBES; MONOLITHIC MILLIMETER WAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NETWORK MEASUREMENTS; NONLINEAR TRANSMISSION LINES; WAVEFORM MEASUREMENTS;

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE;

EID: 0029289167     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.375217     Document Type: Article

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