Cascaded-transistor cell distributed amplifiers

Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 163-167

  Prasad, S N ^a   Ponnala, Srinivas ^b   Moghe, Sanjay ^c   Li, Zhi M ^d  

^a BRADLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

^c NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^d Megahertz Division   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplifier design; Cascaded transistor cell amplifiers; Distributed amplifiers; High gain bandwidth product amplifiers; Traveling wave amplifiers

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; GAIN MEASUREMENT; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); MESFET DEVICES; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE;

AMPLIFIER DESIGN; CASCADED CELL AMPLIFIERS; DISTRIBUTED AMPLIFIERS; HIGH GAIN BANDWIDTH PRODUCT AMPLIFIERS; IMPEDANCE MATCHING NETWORKS; TRAVELING WAVE AMPLIFIERS;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 0030165507     PISSN: 08952477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2760(19960620)12:3<163::AID-MOP12>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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