Voltage-variable attenuator MMIC using phase cancellation

IEE Proceedings: Circuits, Devices and Systems

Volumn 153, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 442-446

  Saavedra, C E ^a   Jackson, B R ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUFFER CIRCUITS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC ATTENUATORS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROWAVES; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

CG TRANSISTOR; NMOS DEVICES; SIGNAL OF EQUAL AMPLITUDES; VOLTAGE-VARIABLE ATTENUATOR;

MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 33750456488     PISSN: 13502409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-cds:20060018     Document Type: Article

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