Broadband AlGaN/GaN HEMT MMIC attenuators with high dynamic range

2000 30th European Microwave Conference, EuMC 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Alekseev, Egor ^a   Hsu, Shawn S H ^a   Pavlidis, Dimitris ^a   Tsuchiya, Tadayoshi ^b   Kihara, Michio ^b  

^a The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^b HITACHI CABLE LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUTOFF FREQUENCY; GALLIUM ALLOYS; GALLIUM NITRIDE; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS;

BROADBAND OPERATION; HIGH CURRENT GAIN; HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE; MAXIMUM POWER GAIN; MICROWAVE MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTICAL CONTACT LITHOGRAPHY; POWER CHARACTERIZATION; POWER DENSITIES;

MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 84897480889     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EUMA.2000.338705     Document Type: Conference Paper

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