Design of a 43 GHz Ultra-High Bandwidth Linear Driver

ZENG Hongming; TANG Zhaohuan; CHEN Hongwei; HUANG Jun; CHEN Rong

doi:10.13911/j.cnki.1004-3365.220195

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