Design of subharmonically pumped schottky mixers for submillimetre-wave applications

Proceedings of the 1st European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference, EuMIC 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 145-148

  Siles, José V ^a   Grajal, Jesús ^a   Krozer, Viktor ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

CAD; Harmonic balance; Schottky diode mixers; Subharmonically pumped mixers; Submillimeter wave mixers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES;

HARMONIC BALANCE; SCHOTTKY DIODE MIXERS; SUBHARMONICALLY PUMPED MIXERS;

SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES;

EID: 41549096866     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMICC.2006.282772     Document Type: Conference Paper

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