A 1.9 GHz Low-Voltage Silicon Bipolar Receiver Front-End for Wireless Personal Communications Systems

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 1995, Pages 1438-1448

  Long, John R ^a   Copeland, Miles A ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; FEEDBACK; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; MICROSTRIP LINES; MIXER CIRCUITS; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; RADIO RECEIVERS; RESISTORS; TRANSISTORS;

BICMOS PROCESS; COUPLING ELEMENTS; LOW VOLTAGE SILICON BIPOLAR RECEIVER FRONT END; MONOLITHIC MICROSTRIP TRANSFORMERS; REACTIVE FEEDBACK; SILICON BROADBAND DESIGNS; TRANSISTOR TRANSIT FREQUENCY;

MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0029492704     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: 1558173X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.482191     Document Type: Article

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