50-GHz sige HBT distributed amplifiers employing constant-k and m-derived filter sections

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1573-1579

  Aguirre, Jorge ^a   Plett, Calvin ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distributed amplifiers; HBTs; Millimeter wave bipolar transistor amplifiers; SiGe BiCMOS integrated circuits

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC FILTERS; ELECTRIC LINES; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS;

ARTIFICIAL TRANSMISSION LINES; CIRCUIT DESIGN; DISTRIBUTED AMPLIFIERS; IMAGE IMPEDANCE; MILLIMETER-WAVE BIPOLAR TRANSISTOR AMPLIFIERS;

HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS;

EID: 2542432116     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2004.827049     Document Type: Article

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