A 250 GHz subharmonic mixer design using EBG technology

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 55, Issue 11 I, 2007, Pages 2974-2982

  Ederra, Iñigo ^a   Azcona, Luis ^a   Alderman, Byron E J ^b   Laisné, Alexandre ^b,c   Gonzalo, Ramón ^a   Mann, Chris M ^b   Matheson, David N ^b   de Maagt, Peter ^d  

^a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

^b RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c French Armement Procurement Agency   (France)

^d EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic band gap (EBG) technology; Millimeter wave mixers; Millimeter wave technology; Subharmonic mixer

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ENERGY GAP; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MILLIMETER WAVES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC BAND GAP (EBG); HARMONIC BALANCE ANALYSIS (HBA); MILLIMETEER WAVE MIXERS; MILLIMETER WAVE TECHNOLOGY; SUBHARMONIC MIXER;

DIPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 36849026687     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2007.908367     Document Type: Article

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