A subharmonic graphene FET mixer

IEEE Electron Device Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 71-73

  Habibpour, Omid ^a   Cherednichenko, Sergey ^a   Vukusic, Josip ^a   Yhland, Klas ^b   Stake, Jan ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b SP TECHNICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SWEDEN   (Sweden)

Author keywords

FETs; graphene; subharmonic resistive mixers

Indexed keywords

DOWNCONVERSION; FETS; LOCAL OSCILLATORS; SUBHARMONICS;

GRAPHENE; MESFET DEVICES;

MIXERS (MACHINERY);

EID: 84655166979     PISSN: 07413106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LED.2011.2170655     Document Type: Article

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