A broadband frequency sixtupler MIMIC for the W-band with >7 dBm output power and >6 dB conversion gain

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2169-2172

  Kallfass, I ^a   Massler, H ^a   Tessmann, A ^a   Leuther, A ^a   Schlechtweg, M ^a   Weimann, G ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SOLID STATE PHYSICS IAF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Millimeter wave FET integrated circuits; Millimeter wave frequency conversion; Millimeter wave generation; MIMICs; MMICs

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY CONVERTER CIRCUITS; FREQUENCY MULTIPLYING CIRCUITS; GAIN MEASUREMENT; HARMONIC GENERATION; MACHINE DESIGN;

FREQUENCY MULTIPLIERS; MILLIMETER WAVE FREQUENCY CONVERSION; MILLIMETER WAVE GENERATION;

MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 34748911710     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2007.380355     Document Type: Conference Paper

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