38/76 GHz PHEMT MMIC Balanced Frequency Doublers in Coplanar Technology

IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 484-486

  Campos Roca, Y ^a   Verweyen, L ^b   Fernandez Barciela M ^c   Bischof, W ^d   Curras Francos M C ^c   Sanchez E ^c   Hulsmann A ^e   Schlechtweg, M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^b INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^d Vishay   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Millimeter wave generation; millimeter wave integrated circuits; MMICs; MODFETs

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOUBLERS; FREQUENCY MULTIPLYING CIRCUITS; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; VARACTORS;

MILLIMETER WAVE GENERATION; MODFETS; MONOLITHIC DOUBLERS;

MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0034314169     PISSN: 10518207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/75.888840     Document Type: Article

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