A broadband millimeter-wave sub-harmonic mixer using microstrip passive circuits

Jie XU; Zheng-Bin XU; Jian GUO; Cheng QIAN; Di-Xian ZHAO

doi:10.11972/j.issn.1001-9014.2021.01.006

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