Performance enhancement of a sub-sampling circuit for ultra-wideband signal processing

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 873-875

  Zhang, Cemin ^b   Fathy, Aly E ^a,b   Mahfouz, Mohamed ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

Author keywords

Sampler; Sampling mixer; Step recovery diode (SRD); Strobe generator; Ultra wideband (UWB)

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CONVERSION LOSS; INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCY; STEP RECOVERY DIODE (SRD); STROBE GENERATORS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB); WIDEBAND BALUN;

MIXER CIRCUITS;

EID: 36749003939     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2007.910500     Document Type: Article

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