Broadband lumped-element integrated N-way power dividers for voltage standards

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 2055-2063

  Elsbury, Michael M ^a   Dresselhaus, Paul D ^b   Bergren, Norman F ^b   Burroughs, Charles J ^b   Benz, Samuel P ^b   Popović, Zoya ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryogenic electronics; Josephson arrays; Lumpedelement microwave circuits; Microwave integrated circuits (ICs); Power dividers; Superconducting coils; Superconducting ICs; Superconducting microwave devices

Indexed keywords

CRYOGENIC ELECTRONICS; JOSEPHSON ARRAY; LUMPEDELEMENT MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; POWER DIVIDER; SUPER-CONDUCTING COILS; SUPERCONDUCTING ICS; SUPERCONDUCTING MICROWAVE DEVICES;

CRYOGENICS; FREQUENCY DIVIDING CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROWAVES; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

VOLTAGE DIVIDERS;

EID: 77958094343     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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