One single travelling-wave MMIC for highly linear broadband mixers and variable gain amplifiers

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 97-100

  Kallfass, I ^a   Purtova, T ^a   Brokmeier, A ^b   Ludwig, W ^b   Schumacher, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b AIRBUS GROUP INNOVATIONS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Broadband amplifiers; Microwave frequency conversion; MMIC amplifiers; MMIC mixer

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL;

DISTRIBUTED AMPLIFIERS; MICROWAVE FREQUENCY CONVERSION; MMIC AMPLIFIERS; MMIC MIXERS;

MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 33749233864     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2005.1516530     Document Type: Conference Paper

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