Broadband RF Match to a Millimeter-Wave SIS Quasi-Particle Mixer

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 1985, Pages 1495-1500

  Lloyd, Frances L ^c   Richards, Paul L ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 21244493853     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.1985.1133245     Document Type: Article

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