Low-Noise, Low-Distortion CMOS AM Wide-Band Amplifiers Matching a Capacitive Source

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 833-840

  Chang, Zhongyuan ^a   Sansen, Willy M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS, CMOS; RADIO RECEIVERS; SIGNAL DISTORTION;

AM SYNCHRONOUS DETECTION; CAPACITIVE ANTENNA; WIDEBAND CMOS AMPLIFIER;

AMPLIFIERS, BROADBAND;

EID: 0025446795     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: 1558173X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.102682     Document Type: Article

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