Wide-bandwidth Si/SiGe HBT direct conversion sub-harmonic mixer/downconverter

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1329-1337

  Sheng, Liwei ^a   Jensen, Jonathan C ^a   Larson, Lawrence E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PHASE SHIFTERS; SEMICONDUCTING GERMANIUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

DIRECT CONVERSION SUBHARMONIC MIXERS/DOWNCONVERTERS; LOCAL OSCILLATORS (LO);

HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS;

EID: 0034271311     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.868044     Document Type: Article

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