Novel 3 port characterisation and de-embedding for high performance on-silicon Ka band balun

Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 237-240

  O'Sullivan, John A ^a   McCarthy, Kevin G ^a   Murphy, Patrick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; MULTILAYERS; SILICON;

BALUN PARAMETERS; BAND BALUN; MAGNITUDE IMBALANCES;

BAND STRUCTURE;

EID: 33845890600     PISSN: 15292517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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