MMIC-based quadrature hybrid quasi-circulators for simultaneous transmit and receive

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 489-497

  Cheung, Siu K ^a   Halloran, Timothy P ^a   Weedon, William H ^a   Caldwell, Craig P ^a  

^a Applied Radar Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Ferrite circulators; Ferrite devices; Hybrid integrated circuits; Microwave circulator; Phase matching; Simultaneous transmit and receive (STAR); System on a chip (SOC)

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE COMPONENTS; ANTENNA GAINS; BROADBAND PERFORMANCE; HIGH FREQUENCY OPERATION; HIGH ISOLATION; LANGE COUPLERS; OUTPUT PORTS; PHASE CANCELLATION; PHASED ARRAYS; PROPOSED ARCHITECTURES; QUADRATURE HYBRIDS; STRESS TEST; SYSTEM-ON-A-CHIP; SYSTEM-ON-A-CHIP (SOC); SYSTEM-ON-CHIP APPLICATIONS;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; BANDPASS FILTERS; FERRITE; FERRITE DEVICES; HYBRID INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROWAVES; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PHASE MATCHING; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS;

MICROWAVE CIRCULATORS;

EID: 77949539602     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2010.2040325     Document Type: Article

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