Impedance Matching in Active Integrated Antenna Receiver Front End Design

IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 16-18

  Andrenko, Andrey S ^a   Ikeda, Yukio ^a   Nakayama, Masatoshi ^a   Ishida, Osami ^a  

^a MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

amplifier; Impedance match; integrated antenna; low noise; noise figure

Indexed keywords

HELICAL ANTENNAS; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ACTIVE INTEGRATED ANTENNAS (AIA);

MICROWAVE ANTENNAS;

EID: 0033705964     PISSN: 10518207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/75.842073     Document Type: Article

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