Hybrid planar/NRD-guide millimeter-wave balanced sub-harmonic mixer

Conference Proceedings - 33rd European Microwave Conference, EuMC 2003

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 1191-1194

  Cassivi, Yves ^a   Wu, Ke ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALANCED SUBHARMONIC MIXER; CONVERSION LOSS; DESIGN STEPS; ISOLATION LEVEL; SLOTLINES; SUB-HARMONIC MIXER; T JUNCTIONS; VIA HOLE;

EID: 31044448479     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EUMC.2003.177698     Document Type: Conference Paper

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