Device Considerations and Modeling for the Design of an InP-Based MODFET Millimeter-Wave Resistive Mixer with Superior Conversion Efficiency

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 1995, Pages 1951-1959

  Lin, Eric W ^a   Ku, Walter H ^b  

^a NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; OPTIMIZATION; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS;

MILLIMETER WAVE RESISTIVE MIXER; MODFET DEVICES; SUPERIOR CONVERSION EFFICIENCY;

MIXER CIRCUITS;

EID: 0029357421     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.402285     Document Type: Article

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