Power amplifier technology at microwave and millimeter-wave frequencies: An overview

German Microwave Conference, GEMIC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Hadziabdic, Dzenan ^a   Krozer, Viktor ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

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Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); FREQUENCY BANDS; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; MICROWAVES; MILLIMETER WAVES; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; POWER HEMT;

AMPLIFIER TECHNOLOGIES; FREQUENCY RANGES; LOWER FREQUENCIES; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; MILLIMETER WAVE (MMW); MILLIMETER WAVE FREQUENCIES; POWER AMPLIFICATION; THEORETICAL LIMITS;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

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