Analysis of symmetric varactor frequency multipliers

Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 26-29

  Dillner, Lars ^a   Stake, Jan ^a   Kollberg, Erik L ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Frequency multipliers; Varactors

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VARACTORS;

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EMBEDDING IMPEDANCE; SYMMETRIC VARACTORS;

FREQUENCY MULTIPLYING CIRCUITS;

EID: 0031139476     PISSN: 08952477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2760(199705)15:1<26::AID-MOP8>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Article

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