A DC-21 GHz low imbalance active balun using darlington cell technique for high speed data communications

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 728-730

  Weng, Shou Hsien ^a   Chang, Hong Yeh ^a   Chiong, Chau Ching ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Active balun; Darlington cell; Heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT); Microwave; MMIC

Indexed keywords

3 DB BANDWIDTH; ACTIVE BALUN; ACTIVE BALUNS; BIT STREAM; BROAD BANDWIDTHS; DARLINGTON; DARLINGTON CELL; DIFFERENTIAL OUTPUT; EYE DIAGRAMS; FEEDBACK CAPACITOR; GROUP DELAYS; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTOR (HBT); HIGH-SPEED DATA COMMUNICATION; INGAP/GAAS HBT; MAXIMUM AMPLITUDE; MMIC; PHASE ERROR; PSEUDO RANDOM; SMALL SIGNAL GAIN;

BICMOS TECHNOLOGY; BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; MICROWAVES; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

CONVOLUTIONAL CODES;

EID: 70449532997     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2009.2032017     Document Type: Article

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