Tunable pulse generator for ultra-wideband applications

APMC 2009 - Asia Pacific Microwave Conference 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2272-2275

  Jin, Renfeng ^a   Halder, Subrata ^a   Hwang, James C M ^a   Law, Choi L ^b  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Heterojunction bipolar transistors; Heterojunctions; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse analysis; Pulse circuits; Pulse measurement

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL CIRCUITS; GAAS HBT; GAAS HEMT; IC TECHNOLOGY; IMPULSE SIGNAL; PULSE AMPLITUDE; PULSE ANALYSIS; PULSE MEASUREMENT; PULSE MEASUREMENTS; PULSE WIDTH; SI CMOS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND PULSE; ULTRAWIDEBAND APPLICATIONS;

BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; DELAY CIRCUITS; GALLIUM ALLOYS; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; HETEROJUNCTIONS; HIGH ELECTRON MOBILITY TRANSISTORS; MICROWAVES; PULSE AMPLIFIERS; PULSE AMPLITUDE MODULATION; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; SIGNAL GENERATORS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 77950638094     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APMC.2009.5385437     Document Type: Conference Paper

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