Broad-band 180° phase shifters using integrated submillimeter-wave Schottky diodes

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2949-2955

  Liu, Zhiyang ^a,b   Midkiff, Jason C ^c   Xu, Haiyong ^a,d   Crowe, Thomas W ^a,d,e   Weikle II, Robert M ^a,b,d,f  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c Semicoa Inc   (United States)

^d University of Virginia   (United States)

^e VIRGINIA DIODES INC   (United States)

^f Department of Electrical Engineering ^*

Author keywords

Parametric upconversion; Phase shifter; Schottky diodes; Sideband generator

Indexed keywords

BROAD-BAND OPERATION; CONVERSION LOSS; PARAMETRIC UPCONVERSION; SIDEBAND GENERATOR;

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; INSERTION LOSSES; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES;

PHASE SHIFTERS;

EID: 27744555296     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.854262     Document Type: Conference Paper

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