Transimpedance bandwidth performance of an HBT loss-compensated coplanar waveguide distributed amplifier

Electronics Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 24, 1996, Pages 2287-2288

  Kobayashi, K W ^a   Tran, L T ^a   Lammert, M D ^a   Oki, A K ^a   Streit, D C ^a  

^a NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Coplanar waveguides; Distributed amplifiers; Heterojunction bipolar transistors

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC LOSSES; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; GAIN MEASUREMENT; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; WAVEGUIDES;

CUT OFF FREQUENCY; DIRECT COUPLED TOPOLOGIES; TRANSIMPEDANCE;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 0030291674     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19961517     Document Type: Article

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