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A novel 12-24 GHz broadband HBT distributed active balanced mixer

Kobayashi et al., 1997

Document ID
1231383016962501841
Author
Kobayashi K
Tran L
Lammert M
Block T
Oki A
Streit D
Publication year
Publication venue
1997 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium. Digest of Technical Papers

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Here we present a novel HBT distributed active balanced Schottky mixer design that demonstrates octave-band balanced frequency performance in a compact 3/spl times/3.9 mm/sup 2/MMIC while operating with a reduced LO power of+ 9 dBm. The MMIC mixer …
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