A 44-GHz monolithic waveguide plane-wave amplifier with improved unit cell design

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1237-1241

  Kwon, Youngwoo ^a   Sovero, Emilio A ^a   Deakin, Don S ^b   Aiden Higgins, J ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b ROCKWELL SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

High electron mobility transistors; Power amplifiers; Power combining; Quasi optic techniques

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS; MILLIMETER WAVES; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WAVEGUIDES;

MONOLITHIC WAVEGUIDE PLANE WAVE AMPLIFIER; POWER COMBINING; QUASI OPTIC AMPLIFIERS;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0032166259     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.709463     Document Type: Article

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