Compact and broad-band millimeter-wave monolithic transformer balanced mixers

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3106-3113

  Wu, Pei Si ^b   Wang, Chi Hsueh ^b   Huang, Tian Wei ^a   Wang, Huei ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Phi Kappa Phi and Tau Beta Pi ^*

Author keywords

Diode; Mixer; Monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC); Transformer

Indexed keywords

BROAD-BAND MATCHING; MIXERS; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (MMIC);

BANDWIDTH; DIODES; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROWAVES;

MIXER CIRCUITS;

EID: 27644566584     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.855122     Document Type: Article

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