Quasi-optical transmit/receive front ends

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 46, Issue 11 PART 2, 1998, Pages 1964-1975

  Popovic, Zoya ^a   Mortazawi, Amir ^b  

^a UCB 428   (United States)

^b Campus Box 7908   (United States)

Author keywords

Active antennas; Communications; Quasi optical; Radar

Indexed keywords

HIGH FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; MILLIMETER WAVES; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; RADAR;

QUASI-OPTICAL ACTIVE CIRCUITS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 0032208738     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.734521     Document Type: Article

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