High performance wideband MSAG gain block/driver amplifier MMICs using MLP technology

Microwave Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 74-88

  Ashman, Michael ^a   Bahl, Inder ^a  

^a M/A COM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRIVER AMPLIFIERS; LARGE-SCALE INTEGRATION (LSI); MMIC PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; MULTI-LEVEL PLATING (MLP); MULTIFUNCTION SELF-ALIGNED GATES (MSAG);

BANDWIDTH; ELECTROPLATING; FUNCTIONS; MESFET DEVICES; METALLIZING; PERMITTIVITY; POLYIMIDES; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 11044229028     PISSN: 01926225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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