An HBT unilateral model to design distributed amplifiers

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 47, Issue 63 PART 1, 1999, Pages 795-798

  Paoloni, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Heterojunction bipolar transistor; MMIC's; Travelingwave amplifiers

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NETWORK COMPONENTS;

DISTRIBUTED AMPLIFIERS; GRAPHICAL DESIGN; TRAVELLING WAVE AMPLIFIERS; UNILATERAL MODEL;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS;

EID: 0033365440     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.769352     Document Type: Article

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