High-power high-efficiency SiGe Ku- And Ka-band balanced frequency doublers

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 754-761

  Hung, Juo Jung ^a   Hancock, Timothy M ^a,b   Rebeiz, Gabriel M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Balanced frequency doubler; High efficiency; High power; High spectral purity; Monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC); SiGe

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTIMIZATION; RESONATORS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

BALANCED FREQUENCY DOUBLERS; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH POWER; HIGH SPECTRAL PURITY; SIGE;

FREQUENCY DOUBLERS;

EID: 14544279755     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2004.840615     Document Type: Conference Paper

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