A high-performance w-band uniplanar subharmonic mixer

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 955-962

  Raman, Sanjay ^a   Rucky, Frank ^a   Rebeiz, Gabriel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Coplanar waveguide; Millimeter wave mixer; Mmic's; Subharmonic mixers

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; FREQUENCIES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; RADAR; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; WAVEGUIDES;

MILLIMETER WAVE MIXER; PLASMA ENHANCED CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; SUBHARMONIC MIXER;

MIXER CIRCUITS;

EID: 0031168359     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.588609     Document Type: Article

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