An Optimized 25.5-76.5 GHz PHEMT-Based Coplanar Frequency Tripler

IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 242-244

  Campos Roca, Y ^a   Verweyen, L ^b   Fernandez Barciela, M ^c   Sanchez, E ^c   Curras Francos, M C ^c   Bronner, W ^a   Hulsmann, A ^a   schlechtweg, M ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SOLID STATE PHYSICS IAF   (Germany)

^b INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Millimeter wave generation; millimeter wave integrated circuits; MMIC's; MODFET's

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY MULTIPLYING CIRCUITS; GATES (TRANSISTOR); HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS; MICROWAVE GENERATION; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

MILLIMETER WAVE GENERATION; MILLIMETER WAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MODULATION DOPED FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS (MODFET);

MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0034205746     PISSN: 10518207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/75.852429     Document Type: Article

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