Active quasi-circulator MMIC using OTAs

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 218-220

  Zheng, You ^a   Saavedra, Carlos E ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Active circulators; Active quasi circulators; Operational transconductance amplifier (OTA)

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE BALUN; ACTIVE CIRCULATORS; ACTIVE QUASI-CIRCULATORS; BONDING PADS; CIRCULATION PORTS; FREQUENCY RANGES; INPUT REFLECTION COEFFICIENTS; OPERATIONAL TRANSCONDUCTANCE AMPLIFIER (OTA);

BANDPASS AMPLIFIERS; FEEDBACK AMPLIFIERS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; TRANSCONDUCTANCE;

MICROWAVE CIRCULATORS;

EID: 64249122619     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2009.2015500     Document Type: Article

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