European Microwave Week
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Across
1 A component frequency of the signal that is an integer
multiple of the fundamental frequency
7 A property of some electric circuits where an increase in
the current entering a port results in a decreased voltage
across the same port (2 words)
11 Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
12 Process that integrates HBTs with FETs on the same
GaAs substrate
13 PAE (3 words)
14 BAW (3 words)
17 Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
18 Third-order intercept point
19 Pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistor
20 Type of oscillator where the feedback signal is taken
from a voltage divider made by two capacitors in series
(2 words)
22 Occurs when the nonlinearity of a device with multiple
input frequencies causes undesired outputs at other frequencies
(2 words)
Down
2 A piece of test equipment used to generate electrical
waveforms of various types (3 words)
3 The process of varying the impedance seen by the output
of an active device to other than 50 ohms in order to
measure performance parameters (2 words)
4 FEM (3 words)
5 A diode with an intrinsic semiconductor region between
a p-type and an n-type semiconductor region
6 Describes the amplitude of a reflected wave relative to
an incident wave (2 words)
8 Enhanced Data rates for Global Evolution
9 A circuit where the average output signal level is fed
back to adjust the gain to an appropriate level for a range
of input signal levels (3 words)
10 Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor
15 Surface acoustic wave
16 Voltage-controlled crystal oscillators
21 Global System for Mobile Communications
23 Short for machine-to-machine communications
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