Power and noise limitations of active circulators

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 316-319

  Carchon, Geert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CIRCULATORS; POWER TO NOISE RATIO;

CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; GATES (TRANSISTOR); INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MICROWAVE CIRCULATORS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRANSCONDUCTANCE; TRANSISTORS; TRANSMITTERS;

MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0033877878     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.821785     Document Type: Article

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