Compact 28-GHz subharmonically pumped resistive mixer MMIC using a lumped-element high-pass/band-pass balun

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 62-64

  Yeh, Ping Chun ^a   Liu, Wei Cheng ^a   Chiou, Hwann Kaeo ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Baluns; Microwave monolithic integrated circuit (MMIC) mixers; pHEMT; Subharmonically pumped resistive mixer (SPRM)

Indexed keywords

DIODES; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRODUCT DESIGN;

BALUNE; MICROWAVE MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (MMIC); PHEMT; SUBHARMONICALLY PUMPED RESISTIVE MIXER (SPRM);

MIXER CIRCUITS;

EID: 13844277032     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2004.842814     Document Type: Article

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