Design and measurements of a novel subharmonically pumped millimeter-wave mixer using two single planar schottky-bairier diodes

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 825-831

  Vogel, Stefan D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b IBM   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; FREQUENCIES; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; WAVEGUIDES;

DOUBLE SIDEBAND CONVERSION LOSS; MICROSTRIP CIRCUITS; MIXER NOISE TEMPERATURE; SUBHARMONICALLY PUMPED MILLIMETER WAVE MIXER;

MIXER CIRCUITS;

EID: 0030172421     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.506440     Document Type: Article

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