Power-amplifier modules covering 70-113 GHz using MMICs

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 9-16

  Wang, Huei ^a   Samoska, Lorene ^b   Gaier, Todd ^b   Peralta, Alejandro ^b   Liao, Hsin Hsing ^c   Leong, Y C ^c   Weinreb, Sander ^d   Chen, Yaochung C ^d   Nishimoto, M ^d   Lai, Richard ^d  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c BEI Duncan Electronics Division Sensors and Systems Company

^d NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MICROSTRIP LINES; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; WAVEGUIDES;

ALUMINUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0034831707     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.899956     Document Type: Article

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