A high conversion-gain Q-B and InP DHBT subharmonic mixer using LO frequency doubler

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 613-618

  Johansen, Tom K ^a,b   Vidkjær, Jens ^a,b   Krozer, Viktor ^a,b   Konczykowska, Agnieszka ^a,c   Riet, Muriel ^c   Jorge, Filipe ^c   Djurhuus, Torsten ^b  

^a IEEE

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c ALCATEL THALES III V LAB   (France)

Author keywords

Coplanar waveguides (CPWs); Heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs); Millimeter wave circuit; Mixer analysis; Monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs); Nonlinear circuit analysis; Subharmonic mixer (SHM)

Indexed keywords

COPLANAR WAVEGUIDES; FREQUENCY DOUBLERS; GAIN MEASUREMENT; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM PHOSPHIDE;

CONVERSION GAIN; MILLIMETERWAVE CIRCUITS; MIXER ANALYSIS; NONLINEAR CIRCUIT ANALYSIS; SUBHARMONIC MIXERS;

MIXER CIRCUITS;

EID: 40549101397     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2008.916892     Document Type: Article

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