An all-solid-state broad-band frequency multiplier chain at 1500 GHz

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1538-1547

  Chattopadhyay, Goutam ^a   Schlecht, Erich ^a   Ward, John S ^a   Gill, John J ^a   Javadi, Hamid H S ^a   Maiwald, Frank ^a   Mehdi, Imran ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Balanced doubler; Broad band solid state multipliers; Schottky barrier diode

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON MOBILITY; FREQUENCY MULTIPLYING CIRCUITS; HETERODYNING; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; SIMULATORS; VARACTORS;

BALANCED DOUBLER; BROSD-BAND SOLID-STATE MULTIPLIERS; HIGH FREQUENCY STRUCTURE SIMULATOR (HFSS);

BROADBAND NETWORKS;

EID: 2542479998     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2004.827042     Document Type: Article

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