45-GHz MMIC power combining using a circuit-fed, spatially combined array

IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 15-17

  Delisle, John T ^a,b   Gouker, Mark A ^a,b   Duffy, Sean M ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; ANTENNA RADIATION; BANDWIDTH; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; HYBRID INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EQUIVALENT ISOTROPIC RADIATED POWER (EIRP); MONOLITHIC MILLIMETER WAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (MMIC) AMPLIFIERS; SPATIALLY COMBINED ARRAY;

MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES;

EID: 0030871536     PISSN: 10518207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/75.553706     Document Type: Article

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