A low distortion bipolar mixer for low voltage direct up-conversion and high IF systems

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1446-1450

  Behbahani, Farbod ^a   Fotowat, Ali ^b   Navid, Saeed ^c   Gaethke, Rainer ^c   Delurio, Micheal ^c  

^a Engineering IV   (United States)

^b SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c NXP SEMICONDUCTORS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIPOLAR SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FEEDBACK; LEAKAGE CURRENTS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TRANSCONDUCTANCE;

GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS (GSM);

MIXER CIRCUITS;

EID: 0031232725     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.628760     Document Type: Article

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