Compact sub-harmonic mixer for Q-band satellite communications

European Microwave Week 2014: "Connecting the Future", EuMW 2014 - Conference Proceedings; EuMIC 2014: 9th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 61-64

  Palombini, Diego ^a,b   Arena, Sergio ^a   Cavanna, Tommaso ^a   Limiti, Ernesto ^b  

^a Wave Advanced Technology Applications srl   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

broadband; EHF; millimeter wave; MMIC; satellite communications; sub harmonic mixer

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MILLIMETER WAVES; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PHASE COMPARATORS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BROADBAND; CONVERSION LOSS; DOUBLE BALANCED MIXERS; HIGH PORT ISOLATIONS; MULTI-CONDUCTOR; PROPOSED ARCHITECTURES; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; SUB-HARMONIC MIXER;

SATELLITES;

EID: 84921289051     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EuMIC.2014.6997791     Document Type: Conference Paper

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