Nonreciprocal components with distributedly modulated capacitors

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2260-2272

  Qin, Shihan ^a   Xu, Qiang ^a   Wang, Yuanxun Ethan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacitive mixers; circulators; distributed mixers; high isolation front end; nonlinear transmission lines; parametric amplifiers; time varying transmission line

Indexed keywords

MIXERS (MACHINERY); PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; WAVEGUIDE CIRCULATORS;

DISTRIBUTED MIXER; FRONT END; ISOLATION CHARACTERISTICS; NON-RECIPROCAL PROPAGATION; NONLINEAR TRANSMISSION LINES; NONRECIPROCAL COMPONENTS; TIME VARYING; TRANSMISSION LINE STRUCTURES;

ELECTRIC LINES;

EID: 85027934062     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2014.2347935     Document Type: Article

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