Silicon monolithic spiral transmission line balun with symmetrical design

IEEE Electron Device Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 182-184

  Yoon, Yeong J ^a   Lu, Yicheng ^a   Frye, Robert C ^b   Smith, Peter R ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY OF SOLIDS; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTRIC LOSSES; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; PASSIVE NETWORKS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON;

SILICON MONOLITHIC SPIRAL TRANSMISSION LINE BALUNS;

MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0032643159     PISSN: 07413106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/55.753760     Document Type: Article

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