All active MMIC-based wireless communication at 220 GHz

IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 477-487

  Kallfass, Ingmar ^a,b   Antes, Jochen ^b   Schneider, Thomas ^c   Kurz, Fabian ^d   Lopez Diaz, Daniel ^a   Diebold, Sebastian ^b   Massler, Hermann ^a   Leuther, Arnulf ^a   Tessmann, Axel ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SOLID STATE PHYSICS IAF   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c Hochschule fur Telekommunikation   (Germany)

^d SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

220 GHz; Millimeter wave amplification; millimeter wave FET integrated circuits; millimeter wave frequency conversion; millimeter wave monolithic integrated circuits (MMICs); wireless communication

Indexed keywords

220 GHZ; MILLIMETER-WAVE AMPLIFICATION; MILLIMETER-WAVE FET INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MILLIMETER-WAVE FREQUENCY CONVERSION; MILLIMETER-WAVE MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS (MMICS); WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

BIT ERROR RATE; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTEGRATION; MILLIMETER WAVES; QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 80455164639     PISSN: 2156342X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2011.2160021     Document Type: Article

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