A novel 15 to 45 GHz monolithic passive balun for MMICS applications

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 31-34

  Hamed, Karim W ^a   Freundorfer, Alois P ^a   Antar, Yahia M M ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; INSERTION LOSSES; MIXER CIRCUITS;

BROADBAND PERFORMANCE;

MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0042195881     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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