K-band receiver front-ends in a GaAs metamorphic HEMT process

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 2459-2463

  Matinpour, Babak ^b,c   Lal, Neeraj ^b   Laskar, Joy ^a,b   Leoni III, Robert E ^a,d   Whelan, Colin S ^a,d  

^a IEEE

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c RF Solutions   (United States)

^d Advanced Device Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Frequency conversion; Microwave circuits; Microwave frequency conversion; Microwave mixers; Microwave receivers; MMIC mixers; MMIC receivers; MMICs; Receivers

Indexed keywords

LOW-NOISE AMPLIFIERS (LNA); MICROWAVE RECEIVERS;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); FREQUENCY CONVERTER CIRCUITS; GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS; MIXER CIRCUITS; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

TRANSCEIVERS;

EID: 0035686696     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.971636     Document Type: Conference Paper

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