VK-band finite ground coplanar monolithic multipliers

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 614-619

  Papapolymerou, John ^a,b   Brauchler, Fred ^c   East, Jack ^b   Katehi, Linda P B ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Doubler; MMIC; Planar circuit; Schottky diode

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; MICROSTRIP LINES; MILLIMETER WAVES; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; VARACTORS; WAVEGUIDES;

FINITE GROUND COPLANAR LINES; MONOLITHIC MULTIPLIERS;

FREQUENCY MULTIPLYING CIRCUITS;

EID: 0032677455     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.763163     Document Type: Article

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