A 26-38 GHz monolithic doubly balanced mixer

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 623-625

  Lin, Che Hung ^b   Lin, Chih Ming ^b   Lai, Yu Ann ^b   Wang, Yeong Her ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Doubly balanced mixer (DBM); Marchand balun; Monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC); pHEMT

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MIXER CIRCUITS; MIXERS (MACHINERY); MIXING;

COMPACT SIZES; DOUBLY BALANCED MIXER; DOUBLY BALANCED MIXER (DBM); GHZ BAND; MARCHAND BALUN; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (MMIC); PHEMT; PHEMT TECHNOLOGY;

MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 52049122596     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2008.2002465     Document Type: Article

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