Resistive HEMT mixers for 60-GHz broad-band telecommunication

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 4 I, 2005, Pages 1322-1329

  Varonen, Mikko ^a   Kärkkäinen, Mikko ^a   Riska, Jan ^a,b   Kangaslahti, Pekka ^a,c   Halonen, Kari A I ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR INC   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Baluns; MIMICs; Resistive mixers

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; MILLIMETER WAVES; MIXER CIRCUITS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TRANSCEIVERS; TRANSMITTERS; WAVE FILTERS; WAVE TRANSMISSION; WAVEGUIDES; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BALUNS; IMAGE-REJECTION (IR) MIXERS; MIMICS; RESISTIVE MIXERS;

HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS;

EID: 18744378627     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.845764     Document Type: Article

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