A COMPACT MMIC BALUN USING SPIRAL TRANSFORMERS

Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference Proceedings, APMC

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 655-658

  Ang, K S ^a   Economides, S B ^b   Nam, S ^a   Robertson, I D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPACT DESIGNS; PERFORMANCE; PHASE BALANCE; SIMPLE++;

MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; RADIO EQUIPMENT;

ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

MARCHAND BALUNS; SPIRAL TRANSFORMERS;

EID: 0033353010     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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