Planar Diode Solid-State Receiver for 557 GHz with State-of-the-Art Performance

IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 232-234

  Oswald, J E ^a   Koch, T ^a   Mehdi, I ^a   Pease, A ^a   Dengler, R J ^a   Lee, T H ^a   Humphrey, D A ^a   Kim, M ^a   Siegel, P H ^a   Frerking, M A ^a   Erickson, N R ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Planar; Receiver; Schottky diode; Subharmonic mixer

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; MIXER CIRCUITS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES;

INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCY (IF) BANDWIDTH; SUBHARMONIC MIXERS;

RADIO RECEIVERS;

EID: 0032099022     PISSN: 10518207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/75.678575     Document Type: Article

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