Coplanar 155 GHz MHEMT MMIC low noise amplifiers

Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference Proceedings, APMC

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 173-176

  Kantanen, Mikko ^a   Varonen, Mikko ^b   Kärkkäinen, Mikko ^b   Karttaavi, Timo ^a   Weber, Rainer ^c   Leuther, Arnulf ^c   Seelmann Eggebert, Matthias ^c   Närhi, Tapani ^d   Halonen, Kari A I ^b  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

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

^d EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

High electron mobility transistors; Low noise amplifiers; Metamorphic HEMTs; MMIC amplifiers

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); AUDIO FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; ELECTRON MOBILITY; GALLIUM; GALLIUM ALLOYS; GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; MICROWAVES; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NOISE FIGURE;

ASIA PACIFIC; CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS; GA TE LENGTHS; GALLIUM ARSENIDE (GAAS); LOW NOISE; METAMORPHIC HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTOR (MHEMT); SMALL SIGNALS; WAVEGUIDE TOPOLOGY;

LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 44849124249     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APMC.2006.4429402     Document Type: Conference Paper

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