Coplanar millimeter-wave IC's for W-band applications using 0.15 μm pseudomorphic MODFET's

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1426-1432

  Schlechtweg, Michael ^a,b   Haydl, William H ^a,b   Bangert, Axel ^b   Braunstein, Jürgen ^b   Tasker, Paul J ^a,c   Verweyen, Ludger ^b   Massler, Hermann ^b   Bronner, Wolfgang ^b   Hülsmann, Axel ^b   Köhler, Klaus ^b  

^a IEEE

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SOLID STATE PHYSICS IAF   (Germany)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); FABRICATION; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; OPTIMIZATION; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WAVEGUIDES;

FEEDBACK CAPACITANCE; NOISE FIGURE; OUTPUT CONDUCTANCE; PASSIVE STRUCTURES;

MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0030270136     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.540051     Document Type: Article

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